FPGA Engineer - Electronic Warfare

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own the development of FPGA functions for electronic warfare and signals intelligence, from architecture to validation
• ▹Work with systems and algorithm engineers to define processing requirements and assess feasibility
• ▹Build RTL modules in VHDL or SystemVerilog to process digitized RF signals, extract information, and generate waveforms
• ▹Adapt and validate DSP algorithms for FPGA implementation, balancing numerical accuracy, speed, and hardware resources
• ▹Integrate acquisition and processing chains, including digital down-conversion, filtering, channelization, FFT, detection, direction-finding, and classification
• ▹Establish verification methods and testbenches to check functional behavior and performance
• ▹Connect programmable logic to RF converters and embedded processors, defining data transfers, control interfaces, clocking, and synchronization
• ▹Resolve implementation constraints, achieve timing closure, and optimize resource utilization and power consumption
• ▹Bring up FPGA designs on target boards, investigate integration issues, and correlate measured behavior with simulation
• ▹Contribute to laboratory and field testing alongside RF, software, and systems engineers
• ▹Maintain design records, interface specifications, and validation evidence
• ▹Improve reusable FPGA components and development practices

Requirements

• ▹MSc in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Signal Processing, or a related field
• ▹Strong experience developing and verifying RTL in VHDL or SystemVerilog, with a focus on digital signal processing
• ▹Practical experience implementing designs on SoC FPGAs, including synthesis, implementation, timing analysis, and hardware debugging
• ▹Strong understanding of sampled signals, frequency conversion, digital filtering, spectral analysis, and fixed-point numerical behavior
• ▹Ability to reason across FPGA, processor, and RF hardware boundaries when making design decisions
• ▹Experience modelling algorithms and comparing reference models with hardware results

Nice to have

• ▹Familiarity with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or HLS
• ▹Familiarity with RF measurements and laboratory equipment such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and oscilloscopes
• ▹Prior experience in electronic warfare (welcome but not required)

Soft skills

About the company

Alta Ares is an air defense company building AI-guided interceptors against drones and cruise missiles, along with the software platform that powers them. Its customers are NATO-aligned militaries and defense institutions. Founded in 2024, it has grown to 90 people.