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Senior FPGA Engineer

Torrance, California, United States
Full Time On-site

Summary

Job Description

Duties  

  • Design and verification of RTL modules for FPGA applications
  • Ownership of entire FPGA designs from initial architecture trades through implementation, verification, and hardware bringup, including FPGA sizing estimation and IO planning.
  • Lead initial testing and bring-up of custom FPGA circuit cards, validating functionality of on-board peripherals including memory interfaces, Ethernet controllers, and integrated sensors.
  • Automating test environment (up to and including hardware-in-the-loop testing), lab equipment, and measurement devices
  • Capturing design tradeoffs, state machine flow, system address maps, and block diagrams 

Required Qualifications  

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in FPGA design, implementation, and testing
  • Extensive experience implementing FPGA designs and embedded processing designs on embedded hardware
  • Experience working with latest generation state-of-the-art Xilinx/Intel Parts and associated tool sets (Vivado, Quartus)
  • Understanding of common digital communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
  • Development Experience of Integrated Embedded Applications (ARM, GPU)
  • Experience with standard bus and streaming protocols, such as AXI and AXI-Stream
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
  • Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required.  

Desired Qualifications 

  • Experience with design automation, scripting languages (TCL, Python, Perl, Matlab)
  • Knowledge of Advanced Firmware Verification Testbench Development (UVM, System Verilog)
  • Skilled with Advanced High-Speed Verilog/VHDL Designs including High Speed Memory Interfaces (DDR4, HBM) and High Speed SerDes IO and Protocols (100GE, JESD204B, Interlaken)
  • Experience implementing Complex DSP Algorithms on FPGAs using tools such as Matlab, Simulink, HDL Coder to implement advanced communications or other designs in FPGA
  • Experience collaborating with software engineering team in an SoC environment to develop designs that incorporate HDL combined with embedded Linux
  • Good written and oral communication skills
  • Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization
  • Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment 

ITAR REQUIREMENTS: 

  • To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

At Epirus, you’ll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules. 

As required by the Equal Pay Transparency Act, Epirus provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. 
For the state of California only, the range of starting pay for this role is:
$142,800—$175,600 USD

About Epirus

Epirus

Epirus is a fast-growing defense technology company building next-generation directed energy systems designed to counter modern battlefield threats, especially drone swarms and electronic attacks. The company is best known for its flagship system, Leonidas, a high-power microwave platform that disables electronics at range and represents a shift toward “one-to-many” counter-drone defense capabilities in modern warfare.

For job seekers, Epirus offers the chance to work on highly advanced systems at the intersection of electronics, software, AI, and defense engineering. The company hires across robotics, electrical engineering, RF systems, software development, systems engineering, manufacturing, and defense program roles—making it especially attractive to engineers, veterans, and cleared professionals who want to build technologies used directly in national security missions.

Unlike traditional defense contractors, Epirus operates with a startup-style, mission-driven culture focused on speed, ownership, and rapid deployment of technology into real-world environments. Employees work in a highly technical environment where hardware and software are tightly integrated, and where innovation is driven by urgent operational needs rather than long development cycles.

As militaries increasingly prioritize counter-drone, electronic warfare, and autonomous defense systems, Epirus continues to grow its footprint through new contracts, partnerships, and production scaling. For professionals looking to join a high-growth defense startup building cutting-edge electromagnetic and AI-enabled defense systems, Epirus stands out as one of the most closely watched companies in the modern defense technology ecosystem.

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