BRINC Drones
Principal FPGA Engineer
$110K–$250K
Seattle, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jan 6, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years required; 10+ years preferred.
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Leads the design and development of FPGA systems for drone and public-safety products, including video, sensor, communications, and real-time processing pipelines.
What you'll do
- Architect and implement FPGA systems and high-speed digital interfaces, including video, sensor, and communications pipelines.
- Develop and optimize memory controllers, DMA engines, streaming architectures, and FPGA acceleration for image processing and video enhancement.
- Optimize designs and collaborate with hardware, software, and systems teams to integrate FPGA systems into embedded platforms.
What they ask for
- Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of FPGA design and development experience in complex systems.
- Expert proficiency in Verilog, VHDL, and/or SystemVerilog.
- Experience with FPGA vendor tools, Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ or similar chipsets, high-speed digital design, and board-level bring-up and debugging.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of FPGA design and development experience in complex systems.
- Familiarity with video/image signal processing, computer vision, hardware acceleration, low-latency autonomous systems, or embedded processor integration.
Pay
$110K – $250K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, ModelSim/QuestaSim, Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+, MIPI CSI/DSI
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