Apptronik
Staff Electrical Engineer - Sensor FPGA
$244K–$270K
Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Austin, TX
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Experience
- At least 8 years of experience in Electrical Engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Architects and delivers the electrical and FPGA design for Apollo’s sensor bridge, from requirements and board design through validation and production release.
What you'll do
- Own sensor-bridge requirements, component selection, schematics, layout guidance, RTL architecture, validation, and manufacturing release.
- Design high-speed mixed-signal interfaces and FPGA functions for camera data, Ethernet packetization, synchronization, and sensor metadata.
- Lead bring-up, debugging, lifecycle and vendor coordination, and cross-functional technical execution; mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- At least 8 years of Electrical Engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Demonstrated FPGA design experience, including device selection, VHDL and/or Verilog RTL, timing closure, clock-domain crossing, and FPGA tool flows.
- High-speed digital design knowledge and hands-on hardware prototyping, testing, and debugging experience.
Nice to have
- Camera/image sensor hardware experience, including SerDes, MIPI CSI-2, and ISP integration; automotive or robotics vision systems are strongly preferred.
Pay
$244,000-270,000 USD base salary
Tools
VHDL, Verilog, CSI-2, GMSL2, FPD-Link, 10GbE, Vivado, Quartus
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