Staff Engineer FPGA Design
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop FPGA-based communication modules for UAV platforms, implement timing synchronization and redundancy solutions, and integrate designs with system architecture. You will perform synthesis, timing closure, bitstream generation, debugging, testing, hardware validation, design reviews, and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a STEM discipline
- FPGA design, implementation, and verification using VHDL or SystemVerilog
- Digital communication systems
- Timing closure
- Clock domain crossing
- System-level integration
- FPGA timing analysis
- Git
- Debugging
- Problem-solving
Responsibilities
- Design and develop FPGA-based communication modules for UAV platforms
- Develop timing synchronization and redundancy solutions across flight controllers
- Integrate FPGA solutions with system-level architecture
- Perform synthesis, implementation, timing closure, and bitstream generation
- Debug, test, and optimize designs for reliability, latency, and throughput
- Collaborate on board bring-up and hardware validation
- Contribute to FPGA architecture discussions and technical direction
- Participate in design reviews and maintain engineering documentation
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment