Senior FPGA Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Role Summary

Join Anduril's Intelligence Systems team in Reston, VA to develop, test, and deploy FPGA designs on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms for intelligence customers. The role focuses on digital circuit design, HDL implementation, hardware bring-up, and delivering production-capable signals and interfaces.

Experience Level

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

Responsibilities

Work across the full hardware design lifecycle from requirements through board bring-up and testing. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop, simulate, and implement FPGA designs (HDL) on Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms.
• Integrate third-party IP when required and validate integration.
• Implement and verify interfaces and signal types including high-speed communications (Ethernet, serial) and signal processing chains.
• Perform hands-on hardware bring-up and system-level testing; investigate and resolve bugs at HDL and system level.
• Ensure designs meet safety and performance requirements with traceability to system-level requirements.

Requirements

Core qualifications and must-have skills:

• 8+ years of professional FPGA design and development experience.
• Experience with Xilinx SoC platforms.
• Proficient in VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Familiarity with design tools such as Vivado, ModelSim, or Quartus.
• Experience with SoC hardware bring-up, preferably on ARM-based systems.
• Ability to possess and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, organizational, and teamwork skills.

Preferred (nice-to-have):

• Experience designing for safety-critical functions.
• Experience with FPGA interfaces and high-speed buses.
• Experience with systems-on-chip (SoC) architectures 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 is required or preferred (as stated in the source). No alternative-equivalent language was specified.

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.