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Digital Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and integrate RTL for FPGA and SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems, avionics, and mission-critical hardware for autonomous air platforms.

Role type

Senior IC FPGA Design Engineer

Builds

Flight-critical electronics, PCB assemblies, and FPGA-based processing architectures for next-generation autonomous air platforms

Domain

Defense / Avionics / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, FPGA design, RTL implementation, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, hardware debugging, Linux development, Git workflows, Tcl/Python scripting

Preferred skills

Major functional block ownership, AMD/Intel/Lattice FPGA environments, embedded systems co-design, high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204), DO-254 standards, CI/CD flows

Technologies

FPGA, SoC, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, Linux, Git, Tcl, Python, Jira

Responsibilities

Design and implement RTL for FPGA and SoC-based systems; Translate system requirements into microarchitecture and implementation plans; Own FPGA designs from architecture through integration and timing closure; Develop and execute simulation, synthesis, and implementation flows; Debug functional, timing, and integration issues in simulation and on hardware; Support board bring-up, lab validation, and system integration; Collaborate with hardware, embedded software, systems, and verification engineers

Seniority

Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC

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