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# Senior FPGA Engineer

- **Company:** Epirus, Inc.
- **Location:** Torrance, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $142,800.0 - $175,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Transmissions, Electronic Design Automation, Linux on Embedded Systems, Perl (Programming Language), Embedded Software, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Simulink, Software Engineering, SystemVerilog, Tcl (Programming Language), Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Vivado, Scripting, Serial Peripheral Interface, State Machines, Live Streaming
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/f4a065c3-c75b-48e1-a800-3d8c7d99644b/senior-fpga-engineer

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
 * 5+ years of experience in FPGA design, implementation, and testing
 * Extensive experience implementing FPGA designs and embedded processing designs on embedded hardware
 * Experience working with latest generation state-of-the-art Xilinx/Intel Parts and associated tool sets (Vivado, Quartus)
 * Understanding of common digital communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
 * Development Experience of Integrated Embedded Applications (ARM, GPU)
 * Experience with standard bus and streaming protocols, such as AXI and AXI-Stream
 * Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
 * Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required.

Desired Qualifications

 * Experience with design automation, scripting languages (TCL, Python, Perl, Matlab)
 * Knowledge of Advanced Firmware Verification Testbench Development (UVM, System Verilog)
 * Skilled with Advanced High-Speed Verilog/VHDL Designs including High Speed Memory Interfaces (DDR4, HBM) and High Speed SerDes IO and Protocols (100GE, JESD204B, Interlaken)
 * Experience implementing Complex DSP Algorithms on FPGAs using tools such as Matlab, Simulink, HDL Coder to implement advanced communications or other designs in FPGA
 * Experience collaborating with software engineering team in an SoC environment to develop designs that incorporate HDL combined with embedded Linux
 * Good written and oral communication skills
 * Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization
 * Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

## Description

Job objective: This is an exciting role an innovative, high-growth defense technology company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has experience designing, verifying, and integrating state-of-the-art FPGA systems and embedded processing solutions for RF applications. As a Sr. FPGA Engineer, you will work closely with a talented, multi-disciplinary engineering team in a fast-paced environment to apply emerging technologies in innovative ways to rapidly produce new products., * Design and verification of RTL modules for FPGA applications

 * Ownership of entire FPGA designs from initial architecture trades through implementation, verification, and hardware bringup, including FPGA sizing estimation and IO planning.
 * Lead initial testing and bring-up of custom FPGA circuit cards, validating functionality of on-board peripherals including memory interfaces, Ethernet controllers, and integrated sensors.
 * Automating test environment (up to and including hardware-in-the-loop testing), lab equipment, and measurement devices
 * Capturing design tradeoffs, state machine flow, system address maps, and block diagrams