Firmware Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Lexington, MA · Mission Systems : Imaging Engineering : Imaging - Firmware Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Firmware Engineer to design new product lines. The role involves FPGA architecture, development, simulation, integration, hardware/software integration, testing, validation, and optimization for hardware acceleration. The team focuses on computer vision, perception, and sensor data for military applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. FPGA architecture, standards, development and review processes
  2. FPGA Development: Designing, architecting, simulating, and integrating VHDL designs into FPGAs or Systems on Chip (SoC) for optimized performance, resource utilization, and power efficiency.
  3. Hardware/Software Integration: Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams (electrical engineers, software engineers, systems engineers) to ensure seamless integration of the firmware with the overall system, including processor bring-up and board support packages.
  4. Testing and Validation: Developing robust test benches in VHDL/Verilog and utilizing lab tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers for rigorous testing and validation of designs against functional specifications and performance requirements.
  5. Optimization: Optimizing the algorithms for hardware acceleration, including MIPS optimization and efficient use of on-chip bus protocols like AXI or AXI-Stream.

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience developing HDL firmware for FPGA devices
  • Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • Experience with Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus
  • Strong hardware/software debugging skills
  • Proficiency with Git
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • multi-gigabit SERDES, DDR memory busses, Ethernet MAC and PHY interfaces, FPGAs, SPI and I2C
  • Embedded software development experience
  • Knowledge of embedded Linux development
  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • infrared image sensor technology

What the JD emphasized

  • Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog is essential for RTL (Register Transfer Level) design.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance