Staff Engineer, FPGA Design

Responsibilities

• Design and develop FPGA-based communication modules for advanced UAV platforms.
• Develop solutions that enable precise timing synchronization and redundancy across flight controllers.
• Integrate FPGA solutions with system-level architecture in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Perform synthesis, implementation, timing closure, bitstream generation.
• Debug, test, and optimize for reliability, latency, and throughput.
• Collaborate with PCB designers during board bring-up and hardware validation.
• Contribute to FPGA architecture discussions and help define long-term technical direction within the platform.
• Participate in design reviews and maintain engineering documentation.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or STEM discipline.
• Strong experience with FPGA design, implementation, and verification using VHDL or SystemVerilog.
• Demonstrated ability to build reliable, high-performance digital communication systems.
• Solid understanding of timing closure, clock domain crossing, and system-level integration.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with evolving requirements.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of FPGA timing analysis and timing closure techniques.
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Git.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Xilinx FPGA ecosystem (Vivado, toolchains, etc).
• In-depth understanding of ethernet and network stack implementation.
• Experience developing flight computers.
• Experience designing solutions for safety-critical real-time systems.
• Experience with AXI4, AXI-Stream, and memory-mapped interfaces.
• Experience using TCL scripting to automate FPGA build flows.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices for FPGA development.