FPGA Engineer

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Motion Recruitment Full time

Join an Australian technology company at the forefront of innovation in electronic systems and defence technology. This organisation designs and develops advanced solutions that make the world a safer and more secure place, tackling complex technical challenges in areas such as electronic warfare, artificial intelligence, machine learning, RF sensing, and sensor fusion.

Working with a diverse range of customers across military, government, critical infrastructure, and law enforcement sectors, you will have the opportunity to contribute to products that have real-world impact and global reach.

About the role
We are seeking an FPGA Engineer with strong technical expertise to join the engineering team based in Sydney CBD. You will play a key role in the design and implementation of FPGA based systems, developing advanced digital signal processing and machine learning algorithms that drive next-generation sensing and countermeasure technologies.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing engineering group, working on innovative projects in a collaborative, high performance environment.

Key responsibilities

  • Design, develop, document, and implement FPGA-based systems for real-time digital signal processing applications.
  • Research and develop optimised RTL implementations of DSP, ML, and statistical algorithms.
  • Implement, verify, and optimise FPGA architectures for performance, accuracy, and stability.
  • Contribute to scaling R&D, development, verification, and validation infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, software, and systems engineering.

Skills and experience
- Degree in electronics engineering, computer engineering, or a similar technical discipline.
- At least two years of commercial FPGA design and development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Verilog, VHDL, or System Verilog for design, debugging, and verification.
- Experience with FPGA toolchains such as Vivado, Quartus, or Vitis.
- Skilled in timing closure, synthesis, and resource-constrained FPGA optimisation.
- Experience developing high-throughput, low-latency FPGA architectures.
- Familiarity with C/C++ firmware and Python scripting.
- Experience working in a Linux environment.
- Background in digital signal processing and/or RF systems is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts for FPGA implementation would be an advantage.

Why join
- Work on cutting edge technology with meaningful real-world applications.
- Be part of a growing team that values innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.

* Enjoy a modern Sydney CBD workspace and the opportunity to contribute to globally deployed systems.

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