Senior Firmware Engineer
Waltham · Waltham, MA (WMA-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Waltham · Waltham, MA (WMA-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Imaging team is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design a new product lines.
- You will work closely with an interdisciplinary technical team to define, complete the design and analysis, build prototypes leading to ground and flight testing, and mature the prototypes into products.
Responsibilities
- Lead FPGA architecture, standards, development and review processes
- Designing, architecting, simulating, and integrating VHDL designs into FPGAs or Systems on Chip (SoC) for optimized performance, resource utilization, and power efficiency
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless integration of the firmware with the overall system, including processor bring-up and board support packages
- Developing robust test benches in VHDL/Verilog and utilizing lab tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers for rigorous testing and validation of designs
- Optimizing the algorithms for hardware acceleration, including MIPS optimization and efficient use of on-chip bus protocols like AXI or AXI-Stream
Requirements
- A Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is typically required
- 10+ years of experience developing HDL firmware for FPGA devices
- Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog is essential for RTL (Register Transfer Level) design
- Experience with industry-standard FPGA design tools such as Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus
- Strong hardware/software debugging skills using standard lab equipment
- Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) for collaborative development
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated experience designing with multi-gigabit SERDES, DDR memory busses, Ethernet MAC and PHY interfaces, FPGAs, and common communication busses like SPI and I2C
- Embedded software development experience with the use of timers, interrupts, hardware peripherals such as SPI controllers and ADCs
- Knowledge of embedded Linux development, including device trees, hardware drivers, bootloaders, and basic Unix/Linux tools
- Familiar with common programming languages like Python and MATLAB
- Familiarity with infrared image sensor technology
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Skills
- VHDL
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- Xilinx Vivado
- Intel Quartus
- Git
- AXI
- AXI-Stream
- Python
- MATLAB
