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Senior Digital Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Hardware : Digital Design
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior FPGA Design Engineer for Anduril's Air Dominance and Strike Electrical Engineering Team in Costa Mesa, CA. Focus on designing and integrating RTL for FPGA/SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems, avionics, and mission-critical hardware across the full development cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement RTL in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog for 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 while maintaining the engineering rigor required for production hardware.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 8+ years of FPGA, ASIC, or closely related digital design experience.
  • Proficiency in 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.
  • Proficiency with Linux-based development environments, Git-based workflows, and Tcl and/or Python scripting.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:RTL designmicroarchitectureFPGA/SoC designsimulation and timing closuredebugginglab bring-up

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related supports) available to employees.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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