Anduril
Principal Digital Hardware Engineer (FPGA/VHDL)
$241K–$319K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Leads electrical engineering and develops FPGA/SoC/SoM embedded compute hardware and workflows for vehicle management, DSP, and networking.
What you'll do
- Lead the electrical engineering team and own the host-board development cycle from requirements and design through bring-up, testing, and integration.
- Develop and improve FPGA/HDL design workflows, including architecture, simulation, system testing, and library standardization.
- Coordinate scalable deployment strategy and communicate product development schedules.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 15+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex boards in military, automotive, or similar hardware.
- Experience leading a digital-design electrical engineering team; proficiency in VHDL or Verilog.
- Familiarity with MCU, CPU, and FPGA technologies; standard interfaces; signal/power integrity; electronics; test equipment; Altium Designer or equivalent; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, DO-311A, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, or MIL-STD-461.
- Computer networking expertise or experience implementing enhanced security measures.
Pay
$241,000 — $319,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
FPGA, SoCs, SoMs, VHDL, Verilog, Ethernet, CAN, I2C
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