Sr. FPGA Design Engineer

Reliable Robotics Corporation • Mountain View, CA

7d • $215,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As a Sr. FPGA Design Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be part of the flight software team responsible for firmware and software at the heart of the company’s autonomy stack. The team develops dependable computing, networking, signal processing, and motor control solutions to bring its aircraft to life. Your work will support development of the flight computer and air-to-air RADAR, enabling higher-level capabilities and helping prepare products for certification and delivery to market.

You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional development environment that uses mutual peer review to maintain product quality. The work includes FPGA requirements, design, and simulation, along with code synthesis, hardware integration, and testing. You will contribute to multiple FPGA projects supporting Reliable Robotics’ long-term technology roadmap. The role offers the opportunity to work within a vertically integrated technology stack extending to the aircraft level, with a direct impact on aircraft capabilities and requirements.

This position requires access to information subject to U.S. export controls. Employment offers are contingent on the applicant’s ability to comply with U.S. export control laws. Applicants must provide documentation establishing their U.S. person or non-U.S. person status, and applicable nationalities. The company may decline to seek an export license and may discontinue an application or offer when authorization is required for access to export-controlled technology or source code.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• At least 8 years of end-to-end FPGA/ASIC design experience using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Professional experience designing FPGA digital logic using industry-standard design, simulation, and synthesis tools.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Proven track record of product ownership, including development and field support.
• Experience with safety-critical FPGA development (DO-254 Level A/B or equivalent industry standard).
• Experience architecting, implementing, and verifying fixed-point DSP algorithms.
• Comfort with a fast-paced, agile or iterative development life cycle.
• Pragmatic, results-oriented work style.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to FPGA requirements, design, and simulation.
• Perform code synthesis, hardware integration, and testing.
• Work collaboratively across functions and participate in mutual peer reviews to maintain product quality.
• Contribute to multiple FPGA projects in support of the long-term technology roadmap.
• Support development of the flight computer and air-to-air RADAR.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior