Senior FPGA Engineer

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer

Role Summary

Lead design and delivery of FPGA-centric embedded compute solutions used for vehicle management, DSP, and networking. Own the product portfolio and roadmap and coordinate a cross-functional engineering team (electrical, firmware, FPGA, test) from concept through sustainment.

Work targets high-performance PCBs and host boards for FPGAs/SoCs in high-reliability aerospace and defense applications.

Experience Level

Senior; typically requires 7+ years of relevant hardware and board-design experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include product ownership, hardware design leadership, and cross-team execution.

• Define and own product portfolio and technical roadmap for core embedded compute products.
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams to deliver PCB and FPGA/SoC-based systems.
• Drive full hardware product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, design, bring-up, test, integration, and sustainment.
• Establish and enforce development workflows, verification, and system testing practices.
• Coordinate with product management, internal stakeholders, and customers on requirements and deployment.
• Manage schedules, milestones, task assignments, and deliverables across teams.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; preferred items listed separately.

• 7+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex PCB/board designs in military, automotive, or similar hardware domains.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional hardware or embedded systems product teams from concept to deployment.
• Proficiency in an HDL (VHDL or Verilog).
• Familiarity with MCU, CPU and FPGA devices and common interfaces (Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB).
• Experience in signal integrity and power integrity design.
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and circuit design.
• Competence with test equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, thermal chambers, current probes) and test automation.
• Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent EDA tool.
• Familiarity with flight software architectures, high-reliability aerospace design practices, and redundant aircraft systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS) and flight-critical embedded software design.
• Familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, DO-311A.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461.
• Expertise in computer networking and implementing enhanced security measures.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Anduril

Headquarters: Costa Mesa, CA, USA

Anduril is a defense technology company that builds autonomous systems, AI, sensor-fusion, and computer-vision-enabled platforms for U.S. and allied military and intelligence customers, powered by its Lattice OS to accelerate delivery of operational capabilities.