Senior FPGA Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Role Summary

Join Anduril's Intelligence Systems (AIS) team in Reston to design, implement, test, and bring up FPGA-based solutions for intelligence customers. The role focuses on rapid development of FPGA designs on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms and delivering production-capable hardware and firmware.

Experience Level

Senior — 8+ years of professional FPGA design and development experience.

Responsibilities

Provide end-to-end FPGA engineering from requirements through design, test, and board bring-up for intelligence systems.

• Design, simulate, and implement FPGA/SoC logic on Xilinx platforms.
• Participate in the full design lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, and hands-on board bring-up.
• Integrate third-party IP blocks and ensure correct interface operation.
• Implement and validate high-speed communications (Ethernet, serial) and signal-processing functions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve HDL- and system-level bugs discovered during hardware testing.
• Ensure designs meet applicable safety and performance requirements with traceability to system-level requirements.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, security eligibility, and professional attributes.

• Strong digital circuit design skills and practical FPGA development experience.
• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience with Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms; familiarity with Vivado preferred; ModelSim or Quartus experience acceptable.
• Experience with SoC hardware bring-up, preferably on ARM-based systems.
• Effective problem-solving, organizational, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Currently holds and can maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice-to-have:

• Designing for safety-critical functions and high-reliability systems.
• Experience with FPGA interfaces and high-speed buses.
• Low-level firmware (C/C++) development for bring-up and test.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. (The posting specifies a Bachelor's degree; no alternative "equivalent experience" language was provided.)

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.