Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Engineer

Austin Sensing Company•Austin, TX

About The Position

Austin Sensing Company builds radar, acoustic, and RF sensors for defense, public safety, critical infrastructure, and autonomous systems. It designs and manufactures hardware in Austin, Texas, with a focus on making high-performance sensing reliable, affordable, and widely available. The FPGA Engineer develops digital logic for sensing systems, owning FPGA designs for high-speed data acquisition, signal processing, timing, and hardware interfaces from architecture and simulation through implementation and field testing. The role works closely with RF, electrical, signal processing, and embedded systems engineers to turn sensor data into usable information in real time. The engineer designs reliable logic, closes timing, and debugs implementations on hardware.

Requirements

Experience developing FPGA designs from RTL through verification and hardware deployment.
Proficiency in Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
Strong understanding of synchronous digital design, clock-domain crossings, timing constraints, and reset strategies.
Experience with FPGA simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis.
Experience building pipelined processing architectures and managing memory and data flow.
Hands-on debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and FPGA debug tools.
Ability to balance throughput and latency with logic, memory, and power constraints.
Clear technical communication and comfort working across engineering disciplines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with radar, RF systems, or high-rate sensor data processing.
Experience with AMD/Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGA platforms and development tools.
Familiarity with JESD204, LVDS, DDR memory, PCIe, or DMA architectures.
Experience implementing fixed-point arithmetic, FFTs, digital filters, and other DSP functions.
Experience with SoC FPGA platforms and interfaces between programmable logic and processors.
Familiarity with Python or Tcl for test automation and build tooling.
A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Design and implement FPGA logic for sensor data acquisition, signal processing, and control.
Work with signal processing engineers to translate algorithms into efficient, verified hardware implementations.
Build streaming data pipelines that meet throughput, latency, and resource requirements.
Integrate high-speed ADCs, DACs, memory, and communications interfaces.
Develop testbenches and simulations to verify functionality before hardware testing.
Own synthesis, implementation, timing constraints, and timing closure for designs.
Design reliable clock-domain crossings, reset sequences, and synchronization between components.
Bring up new hardware alongside electrical and embedded systems engineers.
Debug data integrity, interface, and timing issues using lab equipment and FPGA debug tools.
Document interfaces, resource utilization, and performance results, and maintain repeatable verification workflows.