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Staff Engineer, FPGA Design (R5347)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

Company

Shield AI

Location

Seattle, Washington

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-28T00:47:36.893+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a staff-level FPGA design engineer in Seattle for onsite full-time work. The person will design, implement, verify and debug FPGA-based hardware for avionics in unmanned aerial vehicles. The posting asks for strong digital design fundamentals, experience with AMD/Xilinx tools, and collaboration across hardware, firmware and software teams. It is distinctive for applying FPGA work to UAV avionics at a defense-tech company.