FPGA Engineer

7 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia TheDriveGroup Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

A leading defence technology company is seeking an FPGA Engineer to join its engineering team in Sydney. Reporting to the FPGA Team Lead, this role will focus on developing and expanding drone recognition and disruption algorithms using software-defined radios (SDRs).

The successful candidate will play a key role in implementing complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in production-grade firmware, optimising FPGA designs for performance, stability, and scalability. This is a unique opportunity to work across signal processing, ML, and RF technologies in a high-stakes, mission-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, document, and implement FPGA-based systems to support real-time DSP.
  • Research and deliver highly optimised RTL implementations of DSP, ML, and statistical algorithms.
  • Optimise core FPGA technology for accuracy, performance, and maintainability.
  • Scale R&D, development, verification, and validation infrastructure.

Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 2+ years' professional experience working within an established FPGA team.
  • Strong expertise in Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog (design, debugging, verification).
  • Hands-on experience with FPGA software tools such as Vivado (preferred), Quartus, Vitis, etc.
  • Skilled in synthesis and timing closure for resource-constrained FPGAs.
  • Background in high-speed digital design and building custom IP cores.
  • Experience with automated verification and validation frameworks.
  • Ability to design and implement high-throughput, low-latency, fully pipelined FPGA architectures.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ firmware development for FPGA modules, with scripting (Python preferred).
  • Comfortable working in Linux environments.

Desirable

  • Experience with PCB schematics, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
  • Strong background in Digital Signal Processing.
  • RF knowledge, including transmission protocols and principles.
  • Understanding of Machine Learning concepts as applied to FPGA implementations.

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