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FPGA Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Reston, VA (NOVA-01)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, test, and implement FPGA solutions for intelligence systems, integrating third-party IP and handling high-speed communications and signal processing.

Role type

Senior IC FPGA Engineer

Builds

FPGA designs and hardware bring-up for Intelligence Community (IC) systems

Domain

Defense technology / FPGA hardware design

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

FPGA/HDL hardware design, Xilinx SoC, VHDL/Verilog, Vivado, ModelSim, Quartus, SoC hardware bring-up, ARM-based systems, high-speed comms, signal processing

Preferred skills

Safety-critical function design, FPGA interfaces, high-speed busses, low-level firmware (C/C++)

Technologies

Xilinx SoC, Vivado, ModelSim, Quartus, ARM, Ethernet, Serial

Responsibilities

Integrate third-party vendor IP; Participate in the entire design life cycle from requirements to board bring-up; Implement signal types including high-speed comms and signal processing; Ensure designs meet safety and performance standards; Investigate and resolve bugs at HDL and system levels

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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