Digital Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) Electrical Engineering Team develops high-reliability avionics embedded processing and power systems for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms. Working across hardware software and mission autonomy the team delivers flight-critical electronics PCB assemblies and FPGA-based processing architectures for Andurils next-generation autonomous air platforms. AD&S Electrical Engineers drive end-to-end development from system architecture and circuit design through verification integration and flight test delivering mission-ready systems that meet demanding performance reliability and survivability requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for anFPGA Design Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa this role you will design and integrate RTL for FPGA and SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems avionics and mission-critical hardware. You will work across the full development cycle from requirements and microarchitecture through RTL implementation simulation synthesis timing closure lab bring-up and system integration.

We welcome candidates from a range of complex digital hardware environments.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Design and implement RTL in VHDL Verilog orSystemVerilogfor FPGA and SoC-based systems.

• Translate system and hardware requirements into microarchitecture interface definitions and implementation plans.

• Own FPGA designs or major functional blocks from architecture through integration timing closure and lab debug.

• Develop and execute simulation synthesis and implementation flows including timing and resource closure.

• Debug functional timing and integration issues in simulation and on hardware.

• Support board bring-up lab validation and system integration on target platforms.

• Collaborate with hardware embedded software systems and verification engineers to deliver complete solutions.

• Participate in design reviews code reviews and technical documentation.

• Contribute to reusable design practices coding standards and development workflows.

• Support rapid prototyping whilemaintainingthe engineering rigor required for production hardware.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field.

• 2 years of FPGA ASIC or closely related digital design experience.

• Proficiencyin VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog.

• Hands-on experience with simulation synthesis implementation and timing closure on modern FPGA platforms.

• Hands-on debug experience in simulation and on hardware.

• Strong digital design fundamentals including clocking resets state machines CDC awareness and interface design.

• Proficiencywith Linux-based development environments Git-based workflows andTcland/or Python scripting.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Eligible to obtain andmaintainan active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 years of FPGA development experience.

• Experience owning a major functional block subsystem or full FPGA design from concept through integration.

• Familiarity with AMD (Xilinx) Intel/Altera or Lattice FPGA development environments.

• Experience with embedded systems and hardware/software co-design including AMD (Xilinx) Vitis or similar tooling.

• Familiarity with common high-speed or embedded interfaces such as Ethernet PCIe JESD204 SPI I2C UART CAN or MIL-STD-1553.

• Familiarity with DO-254 or similar military or safety-critical development standards.

• Experience building or improving reusable IP verification infrastructure CI/CD flows or team workflows.

• Familiarity with modern build and development tooling such as Jira automated regression infrastructure and reproducible build environments.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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