Senior FPGA Development Engineer

Location: Kirkland, WA

Department: Research and Development

Echodyne is seeking a Senior FPGA Development Engineer – Design and produce radar equipment subsystems composed of Echodyne’s industry-leading radars.

ROLE OVERVIEW

In this role, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to create radar systems solutions thought high-performance, secure software solutions. 

You will work closely with colleagues to design and build FPGA solutions, mentor junior engineers, and play a key role in shaping the HDL development practices of the team. This role demands technical ownership, systems knowledge, and a strong quality embedded development mindset. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect, design, implement, integrate, and test FPGA-based solutions. 
• Write efficient, robust, timing optimized, and maintainable VHDL/Verilog code.  
• Take responsibility and assume ownership for tasks; seeking guidance when needed.  
• Develop and execute a plan of action based on design requirements and constraints.  
• Hold and participate in design reviews and peer reviews.  
• Work with and support team members, both technical and non-technical. Representing yourself to others with a high level of integrity and professionalism.
• Drive improvements to coding practices and tools across engineering.
• Design and develop reusable cross platform architectures and frameworks.
• Help drive and support testing efforts across teams and projects.
• Work alongside radar, signal processing, and software engineers to implement platform functionality to meet specific system control and signal processing needs.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to junior developers. 

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Proficient at communicating your ideas, plans and designs to teammates.
• Skilled at delineating scope, preparing work plans, resolving design conflicts, and overseeing design implementation steps.
• Solid understanding of FPGA architectures (DSP, SoC), their hardware/software interfaces, and memory interfaces (DDR, SRAM, Flash).
• Experienced user of FPGA design tools and methodologies, including: simulators and static code analyzers. Specifically: Vivado, Quartus, QuestaSim, Blue Pearl, design documentation software, configuration management software (JIRA), and version control software (Git).
• Embedded systems debugging, troubleshooting, and code-testing knowledge using JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multi-meters, spectrum analyzers.
• Knowledge of Python, tcl, or other scripting languages for development and testing automation.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle, and good coding practices  
• Interfacing embedded systems to host computers and peripherals, using common communications protocols (UART, SPI, QSPI, I2C, TCP/UDP IP)
• Experience with common interfaces such as: AXI, AXI-Stream. 

DESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE 
(Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) 

• Experience with one or more high speed interfaces (CML, LVDS, JESD, SERDES, Ethernet/UDP, Aurora, PCI-E)
• Working DSP knowledge including: developing HDL for Radar, Electronic Warfare, Cellular, or other Wireless Technology.  
• Experience in fixed-point math, implementation, tradeoffs, and modeling (Matlab or scipy is a plus).
• Capable of leading a project team of three or more engineers within the discipline or across disciplines.
• Familiar with continuous integration, HIL testing, and Agentic AI workflows. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or equivalent military / industry experience 
• 5+ years of designing, implementing, building, integrate and testing Verilog/System Verilog and VHDL software solutions. 
• Working knowledge of hardware/PCB design and embedded software and verification. 

 

 

Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. 

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WHAT WE OFFER

This is an exempt role.
The salary range for this position is $137,196 - $205,382 per year.