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Principal Digital Hardware Engineer (FPGA/VHDL)

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $253,000–$253,000🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical lead for electrical engineering team creating embedded compute solutions for vehicle management, DSP, and networking.

Role type

Principal Digital Hardware Engineer (FPGA/VHDL)

Builds

Host boards for FPGAs / SoCs / SoMs and scalable compute solutions for military systems

Domain

Defense technology / Embedded systems / FPGA design

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

FPGA design, VHDL/Verilog, PCB development, schematic capture, board layout, signal integrity, power integrity, test equipment automation, Altium Designer, embedded compute architecture, system testing, HDL library standardization

Preferred skills

DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, DO-311A, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461, computer networking, enhanced security measures

Technologies

FPGA, SoC, SoM, Altium Designer, Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers

Responsibilities

Lead electrical engineering team for embedded compute solutions, own full PCB development cycle, develop and improve FPGA/HDL design workflows, collaborate on strategy for rolling out compute solutions, create and maintain product development schedules

Seniority

Principal, technical lead & strategy

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