FPGA System Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $118.9K–$172.2K USD per year for the Bay Area California region

Company

hirify.global develops FPGA platforms and solutions for aerospace, defense, government, and other advanced computing applications.

What you will do

• Architect, implement, optimize, and benchmark FPGA-based DSP and embedded computing solutions.
• Develop FPGA solutions using RTL, DSP Builder, and embedded processor technologies for aerospace and defense applications.
• Deploy and optimize DSP, communications, AI, and signal processing algorithms on hirify.global FPGA devices with strategic customers.
• Create benchmarks, proof-of-concept demonstrations, reference designs, system solutions, technical documentation, application notes, and training materials.
• Analyze and optimize throughput, latency, power consumption, and FPGA resource utilization.
• Support architecture reviews, debugging, performance tuning, customer enablement, and collaboration with FPGA software and tools teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of FPGA design and algorithm implementation experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience with C/C++ and at least 1 year of FPGA development with Verilog or VHDL.
• Strong understanding of digital logic design, FPGA development methodologies, and complex hardware/software system debugging and validation.
• Must be eligible for required U.S. export authorizations and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, collaboration, presentation, and customer-facing skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, CUDA, Quartus Prime, ModelSim or Questa, RTOS, FPGA SoCs, embedded processors, and heterogeneous computing architectures.
• Background in DSP, signal and image processing, wireless and communication systems, AI and deep learning, high-speed ADC/DAC architectures, RF, or software-defined radio systems.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.
• Direct collaboration with strategic customers, industry experts, internal FPGA tool development organizations, and customer engineering teams.
• Opportunity to influence FPGA software tools and future product capabilities.
• Work focused on aerospace, defense, government, AI inference, high-speed data converters, and advanced RF signal processing.