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, and validate FPGA-based solutions for Intelligence Community customers. Work spans requirements, HDL design, simulation, hardware bring-up, and system-level testing.

Experience Level

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

Responsibilities

The role focuses on full lifecycle FPGA development and hands-on hardware bring-up for signal processing and communication systems.

• Participate in requirements, architecture, HDL design, verification, and board bring-up.
• Implement designs on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms, integrating third-party IP as needed.
• Develop and verify VHDL/Verilog RTL and run simulations (ModelSim, Vivado, etc.).
• Implement and validate high-speed communication interfaces (Ethernet, serial) and signal-processing pipelines.
• Perform SoC hardware bring-up and low-level debug at HDL and system levels.
• Ensure designs meet performance and safety requirements with traceability to system-level requirements.

Requirements

Key qualifications and skills required or strongly preferred.

• Must have: 8+ years professional FPGA design and development experience.
• Must have: Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog and experience with simulation and FPGA toolflows (ModelSim, Vivado, Quartus).
• Must have: Hands-on experience with FPGA hardware bring-up and board-level debugging, including SoC platforms.
• Must have: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and strong problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Must have: Currently holds and can maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Nice to have: Experience with Xilinx SoC devices and Vivado toolchain; experience with ARM-based systems.
• Nice to have: Experience designing for safety-critical functions, high-speed bus interfaces, and low-level firmware (C/C++) for bring-up and test.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (as stated in the posting).

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.