Field-Programmable Gate Array [FPGA] Engineer

Austin Sensing Company specializes in developing radar, acoustic, and RF sensors for various applications including defense and autonomous systems. We are seeking an FPGA Engineer to design and implement digital logic for our sensing systems, ensuring high-performance and reliability in our products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement FPGA logic for sensor data acquisition, signal processing, and control.
• Collaborate with signal processing engineers to translate algorithms into efficient hardware implementations.
• Build streaming data pipelines that meet throughput, latency, and resource requirements.
• Integrate high-speed ADCs, DACs, memory, and communications interfaces.
• Develop testbenches and simulations to verify functionality before hardware testing.
• Manage synthesis, implementation, timing constraints, and timing closure for designs.
• Design reliable clock-domain crossings, reset sequences, and synchronization between components.
• Assist in bringing up new hardware alongside electrical and embedded systems engineers.
• Debug data integrity, interface, and timing issues using lab equipment and FPGA debug tools.
• Document interfaces, resource utilization, and performance results, maintaining repeatable verification workflows.

Qualifications:

• Experience developing FPGA designs from RTL through verification and hardware deployment.
• A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.

Skills:

• Proficiency in Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
• Strong understanding of synchronous digital design, clock-domain crossings, timing constraints, and reset strategies.
• Experience with FPGA simulation, synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis.
• Hands-on debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and FPGA debug tools.
• Ability to balance throughput and latency with logic, memory, and power constraints.
• Clear technical communication and comfort working across engineering disciplines.