FPGA and DSP Team Lead (AU)

Location: Onsite at the central Sydney headquarters, Australia

Company

hirify.global develops counter-drone and electronic warfare technologies for military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement.

What you will do

• Lead and support the FPGA and DSP Engineering team developing electronic warfare products with Agile methodologies.
• Assign and prioritise team work while balancing technical trade-offs and business objectives.
• Maintain project plans, resource forecasts, and workforce planning activities.
• Provide management updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and project status.
• Design RF solutions, FPGA applications, ARM-based embedded systems, DSP algorithms, and machine learning implementations.
• Develop multi-FPGA architectures, real-time MPSoC platforms, automated V&V frameworks, and reliable build and deployment systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience providing technical leadership within engineering teams.
• Strong experience developing, debugging, and verifying FPGA designs using Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with Vivado, Quartus, Vitis, or equivalent FPGA development tools, plus high-throughput and low-latency pipelined FPGA architectures.
• Experience with C/C++ firmware, Linux-based development environments, PCB schematics, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
• Strong knowledge of RF systems and digital signal processing, with exposure to machine learning and FPGA-based implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the leading edge of counter-drone innovation and electronic warfare technology.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders across a globally expanding organisation.
• Support professional growth through training and development opportunities.
• Contribute to products used in high-stakes defence, security, infrastructure, and law-enforcement environments.