Principal Engineer, Trajectory Generation
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Senior FPGA Design Engineer
The Reliable Companies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Mountain View • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Work as part of the Embedded Systems team owning firmware and software at the heart of the Reliable Robotics autonomy stack
- Design and develop FPGA requirements, digital logic, and simulations
- Perform code synthesis, hardware integration, and test support for FPGA projects
- Contribute to multiple FPGA projects supporting the long-term Reliable Robotics technology roadmap
- Provide dependable computing, networking, signal processing, and motor control solutions for flight computers and air-to-air RADAR
- Collaborate in a highly cross-functional development environment with mutual peer review to maintain product quality
- Enable product certification and delivery to market by implementing verifiable FPGA designs
- Establish foundational technology for Reliable’s roadmap and directly impact aircraft capabilities and requirements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- 8+ years of full-cycle electronics hardware development experience in a professional environment
- Professional experience designing FPGA digital logic using industry-standard design, simulation, and synthesis tools
- Ability to perform FPGA requirements, design, and simulation as well as code synthesis, hardware integration, and test support
- Ability to provide documentation establishing status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person and to comply with U.S. export control laws (access to export-controlled technology may be restricted)
- (Preferred) Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- (Preferred) Proven track record of product ownership including development and field support
- (Preferred) Experience with safety-critical FPGA development (DO-254 level A/B or equivalent industry standard)
- (Preferred) Experience architecting, implementing, and verifying fixed point DSP algorithms
- (Preferred) Comfortable with a fast-paced, agile/iterative development life cycle
- (Preferred) Pragmatic, results-oriented work style
Benefits
- $150,000 - $220,000 annual salary (base range stated)
- Cash awards
- Stock option awards
- Employee medical (health insurance)
- 401k contribution
- Competitive and rewarding compensation based on experience, market conditions, location, and pay equity
- Great co-workers
- Casual work environment
- Very little travel for employees working from Mountain View, CA
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
FPGA designdigital logiccode synthesishardware integrationtest supportsignal processingmotor controlfixed point DSP algorithmselectronics hardware developmentproduct ownership
Soft skills
collaborationpeer reviewresults-oriented work styleadaptabilitycommunication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer EngineeringAdvanced degree in Electrical EngineeringAdvanced degree in Computer Engineering
