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Reliable Robotics is building safety-enhancing autonomous aviation systems to transform air transportation. The company is developing automated flight systems that will make aviation safer, more convenient, and enable transformative logistics and passenger mobility. The team combines expertise from aerospace, robotics, and autonomous vehicle domains.
As a Senior FPGA Design Engineer, you will join the flight software team responsible for firmware and software at the core of the autonomy stack. You'll work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment focused on delivering dependable computing, networking, signal processing, and motor control solutions. Your work will directly enable the flight computer and air-to-air RADAR systems, unlocking higher-level capabilities and supporting product certification and market delivery.
You will own FPGA requirements, design, simulation, code synthesis, hardware integration, and testing across multiple projects supporting the long-term technology roadmap. The role emphasizes peer review, high product quality, and a fast-paced, results-oriented development culture. You'll have unique visibility into a vertically integrated technology stack extending to the aircraft level, with direct impact on aircraft capabilities and requirements.
Note: This position requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Employment is contingent on compliance with U.S. export control laws and documentation of U.S. person status or appropriate authorization.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- 8+ years of end-to-end FPGA/ASIC design experience using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
- Professional experience designing FPGA digital logic using industry-standard design, simulation, and synthesis tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Proven track record of product ownership including development and field support
- Experience with safety-critical FPGA development (DO-254 level A/B or equivalent industry standard)
- Experience architecting, implementing, and verifying fixed-point DSP algorithms
- Comfort with fast-paced, agile/iterative development life cycles
- Pragmatic, results-oriented work style
