Digital Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

ABOUT THE TEAM 

The Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) Electrical Engineering Team develops high-reliability avionics, embedded processing, and power systems for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms. Working across hardware, software, and mission autonomy, the team delivers flight-critical electronics, PCB assemblies, and FPGA-based processing architectures for Anduril's next-generation autonomous air platforms. AD&S Electrical Engineers drive end-to-end development, from system architecture and circuit design through verification, integration, and flight test, delivering mission-ready systems that meet demanding performance, reliability, and survivability requirements. 

ABOUT THE JOB  

We are looking for an FPGA Design Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will design and integrate RTL for FPGA and SoC platforms used in high-performance embedded systems, avionics, and mission-critical hardware. You will work across the full development cycle, from requirements and microarchitecture through RTL implementation, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, lab bring-up, and system integration. 

We welcome candidates from a range of complex digital hardware environments. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• Design and implement RTL in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog for FPGA and SoC-based systems. 

• Translate system and hardware requirements into microarchitecture, interface definitions, and implementation plans. 

• Own FPGA designs or major functional blocks from architecture through integration, timing closure, and lab debug. 

• Develop and execute simulation, synthesis, and implementation flows, including timing and resource closure. 

• Debug functional, timing, and integration issues in simulation and on hardware. 

• Support board bring-up, lab validation, and system integration on target platforms. 

• Collaborate with hardware, embedded software, systems, and verification engineers to deliver complete solutions. 

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical documentation. 

• Contribute to reusable design practices, coding standards, and development workflows. 

• Support rapid prototyping while maintaining the engineering rigor required for production hardware. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. 

• 2+ years of FPGA, ASIC, or closely related digital design experience. 

• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog. 

• Hands-on experience with simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing closure on modern FPGA platforms. 

• Hands-on debug experience in simulation and on hardware. 

• Strong digital design fundamentals, including clocking, resets, state machines, CDC awareness, and interface design. 

• Proficiency with Linux-based development environments, Git-based workflows, and Tcl and/or Python scripting. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• 4+ years of FPGA development experience. 

• Experience owning a major functional block, subsystem, or full FPGA design from concept through integration. 

• Familiarity with AMD (Xilinx), Intel/Altera, or Lattice FPGA development environments. 

• Experience with embedded systems and hardware/software co-design, including AMD (Xilinx) Vitis or similar tooling. 

• Familiarity with common high-speed or embedded interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, JESD204, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, or MIL-STD-1553. 

• Familiarity with DO-254 or similar military or safety-critical development standards. 

• Experience building or improving reusable IP, verification infrastructure, CI/CD flows, or team workflows. 

• Familiarity with modern build and development tooling such as Jira, automated regression infrastructure, and reproducible build environments.