Principal Digital Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of digital hardware architectures for next-generation sensing, communication, and signal processing systems
• Define technical direction and architecture standards for FPGA, SoC, and digital hardware development across products and programs
• Collaborate with company leadership, program leadership, and engineering teams to advance overall product capabilities and technical roadmaps
• Architect complex FPGA and digital processing solutions utilizing modern Xilinx platforms including Ultrascale+ and RFSoC devices
• Serve as a technical point of contact and subject matter expert for digital hardware technologies across internal and external stakeholders
• Lead technical reviews and provide guidance on hardware architectures, FPGA implementations, verification strategies, and design trade studies
• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies to increase engineering design efficiency and improve system capability, performance, manufacturability, and scalability
• Provide professional mentorship and technical leadership to engineering teams
• Support customer engagements, technical proposals, business development activities, and technology demonstrations
• Guide integration, verification, and validation activities at subsystem and system levels

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical efforts spanning multiple products, programs, and engineering disciplines
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance near-term execution against long-term technology objectives
• Pioneering ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage engineers, customers, and leadership
• Passion for mentoring engineers and advancing technical excellence across the organization

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical efforts spanning multiple products, programs, and engineering disciplines
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance near-term execution against long-term technology objectives
• Pioneering ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage engineers, customers, and leadership
• Passion for mentoring engineers and advancing technical excellence across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Altium Designer
• Experience with Communication and Sensor Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Software Defined Radios, and RF System Design
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, Bash, and Linux
• Experience supporting product transition to manufacturing
• Experience contributing to technology roadmaps and product strategy

Benefits

Hidden Level offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid parental leave, flexible time off, 401(k) with employer contributions, life insurance, disability insurance, and potential stock options.