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Anduril

Senior FPGA Verification Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

$166K–$220K

Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026

Experience
8+ years of experience in FPGA/ASIC verification; 12+ years preferred.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.

About the job

Own verification of FPGA/SoC designs on AMD (Xilinx) platforms for flight-critical avionics, using UVM-based, coverage-driven methods.

What you'll do

  • Architect UVM verification environments, plans, assertions, coverage models, and regression suites for FPGA/SoC designs.
  • Debug simulation failures and collaborate with design engineers on RTL reviews, bug resolution, and micro-architecture refinement.
  • Support hardware validation and board bring-up, and ensure verification meets DO-254 and relevant safety standards.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM methodology, SVA, and object-oriented programming principles.
  • Experience with industry simulators (Questa, VCS, Xcelium, or Vivado), Git-based collaborative workflows, and Linux development environments.
  • Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

  • DO-254, avionics verification standards for UAS, and safety-critical verification processes.
  • Formal verification or CDC verification tools.

Pay

$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

AMD (Xilinx), SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA, Questa, VCS, Xcelium, Vivado

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