Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX
Employment Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire
Salary: $170,000–$210,000
Travel: Minimal
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder; visa sponsorship is not available

Confidential Opportunity

A global innovator in aircraft cabin electronics is seeking a highly experienced Senior FPGA Design Engineer to develop next-generation aviation technologies.

The company designs advanced audio, lighting, entertainment, connectivity, video-processing, and safety systems for commercial and business aircraft. This position offers the opportunity to solve sophisticated digital-design challenges and contribute to products used on aircraft worldwide.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Join a global leader in aircraft cabin electronics and integrated aviation systems.
• Develop advanced FPGA architectures for real-time video, audio, and high-speed communications.
• Work closely with FPGA, hardware, software, and systems engineering teams.
• Influence product architecture from initial concept through production.
• Contribute to next-generation aviation platforms while supporting established product lines.
• Advance into technical leadership and mentorship responsibilities.
• Join a stable, growing organization investing in new aviation technologies.

Position Overview

The Senior FPGA Design Engineer will architect, develop, simulate, integrate, and validate sophisticated FPGA designs using VHDL and Xilinx technologies.

The engineer will develop high-performance video and audio processing pipelines capable of supporting real-time 4K video, HDR processing, digital audio, high-speed interfaces, and embedded communications.

This position requires strong experience resolving timing, clock-domain, performance, and FPGA-to-hardware integration challenges. The successful candidate will perform laboratory validation and hardware bring-up while collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement complex FPGA designs using VHDL and Xilinx devices.
• Develop real-time video, audio, image-processing, and high-speed communications pipelines.
• Design and integrate multi-clock-domain systems, AXI interfaces, memory controllers, and FPGA IP cores.
• Optimize FPGA architectures for performance, reliability, resource utilization, and timing closure.
• Conduct simulation, verification, synthesis, implementation, and design validation.
• Perform laboratory debugging and hardware bring-up using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related test equipment.
• Diagnose and resolve FPGA, board-level, timing, signal-integrity, and system-integration issues.
• Review hardware schematics and support FPGA-to-hardware integration.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, and test engineers throughout the product-development lifecycle.
• Integrate internal and third-party FPGA intellectual property.
• Develop reusable FPGA design practices, methodologies, and documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
• Support products from initial architecture and development through qualification and production.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• Eight or more years of FPGA design experience within aerospace, defense, embedded systems, video processing, or another high-performance digital hardware environment.
• Advanced FPGA development experience using VHDL.
• Extensive experience designing for Xilinx FPGA devices.
• Strong proficiency with Xilinx Vivado and related FPGA development tools.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as PCIe, DDR memory, Ethernet, HDMI, DisplayPort, DSI, GMSL, or comparable technologies.
• Experience developing complex real-time video, image, or audio processing pipelines.
• Strong understanding of multi-clock-domain design, clock-domain crossing, AXI interfaces, timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Experience integrating FPGA IP cores and optimizing FPGA architecture and resource utilization.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA simulation, verification, laboratory debugging, and hardware bring-up.
• Ability to use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related laboratory equipment.
• Strong understanding of hardware schematics and FPGA-to-board integration.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with hardware and software engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Zynq or similar FPGA/processor SoC architectures.
• Experience with 4K video, HDR, video compression or decompression, image processing, or audio DSP algorithms.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and FPGA-development scripting.
• Exposure to CI/CD or DevOps workflows supporting FPGA or embedded development.
• Experience integrating third-party FPGA IP.
• Experience establishing reusable FPGA design methodologies.
• Knowledge of avionics, aerospace electronics, or DO-254 development environments.
• Technical leadership or experience mentoring FPGA engineers.

Compensation and Benefits

The anticipated salary range is $170,000–$210,000, based on experience and qualifications.

The comprehensive benefits package includes:

• Company-paid medical coverage
• Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible plans
• Company-paid life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage
• Company-paid long-term disability insurance
• Optional short-term disability, accident, and critical-illness coverage
• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources
• Virtual healthcare services
• Paid vacation and company holidays
• Professional development and technical-leadership opportunities

Dallas–Fort Worth Area

The Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex offers one of the country’s strongest aerospace, defense, and engineering employment markets. The region provides excellent healthcare, schools and universities, professional sports, dining, entertainment, and outdoor recreation, along with a comparatively affordable cost of living among major U.S. technology centers.

Qualified FPGA engineering professionals interested in a confidential conversation are encouraged to apply.Sr FPGA Design ENgineer