Principal Digital Hardware Engineer (pcbs/fpgas/hdl)

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Hardware Engineering : Electrical Engineering : Electrical Engineering

Principal Digital Hardware Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. This role focuses on leading electrical engineering teams in creating embedded compute solutions for vehicle management, DSP, and networking, with a strong emphasis on the full PCB development cycle for FPGAs/SoCs/SoMs and FPGA/HDL design workflows. The position requires extensive experience in digital hardware design, HDL proficiency, and familiarity with standard interfaces and test equipment, within a defense technology context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technical lead for electrical engineering team, creating embedded compute solutions for vehicle management, DSP, and networking.
  2. Own the full PCB development cycle of host boards for FPGAs / SoCs / SoMs (Developing requirements, schematic capture, board layout, bring-up, test, and integration).
  3. Develop and improve workflows throughout the FPGA / HDL design cycle (Architecture, functional block definition, simulation, system testing, HDL library standardization).
  4. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop a strategy for developing and rolling out your compute solutions across Anduril in a scalable manner.
  5. Create, maintain and communicate product development schedules with sufficient detail to ensure that all assigned personnel are aware of their tasks and deadlines.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 15+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs in military, automotive or similar hardware.
  • Experience with leading an Electrical Engineering team focused on Digital Design
  • Proficiency in an HDL language (VHDL, Verilog)
  • Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
  • Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
  • Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity.
  • Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
  • Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation design tool
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Understanding and familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, DO-311A
  • Understanding and familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461
  • Expertise in computer networking
  • Experience with implementing enhanced security measures

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs in military, automotive or similar hardware.
  • Proficiency in an HDL language (VHDL, Verilog)
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance