Senior/Staff FPGA & Electrical Engineer

Senior/Staff FPGA & Electrical Engineer– San Diego, CAI’m hiring a Senior/Staff FPGA & Electrical Engineer for a pre-commercial company developing next-generation implantable electronics. This is a hands-on, technically deep role owning the electrical and programmable-logic design of the implant from concept through design verification.What You’ll DoArchitect and develop synthesizable HDL (VHDL or SystemVerilog) for a low-power FPGA serving as the implant’s health, status, control, and communications controllerImplement supervisory functions: power sequencing, voltage/current/temperature monitoring, watchdogs, fault detection, and safe-state transitionsDefine and implement the implant side of a low-power serial link to distributed sensing electronics, proven in FPGA emulation with silicon partners ahead of hardwareDesign fault-tolerant control and monitoring logic, including redundant monitors, independent shutdown paths, and fail-safe defaults; lead FMEA and fault-tree analysis per ISO 14971Own the implant’s electrical architecture, including custom silicon integration, inductive charging, RF telemetry, and power budgetingLead miniaturized PCB and flex-rigid design in AltiumDefine and execute electrical and FPGA verification plans within design controls (IEC 60601-1, IEC 62304, ISO 14708)Review and debug firmware and test software alongside the firmware team; support design transfer to contract manufacturersWhat You BringBS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field8+ years in mixed-signal hardware design for miniaturized, high-reliability electronic systems5+ years of hands-on FPGA development on low-power families, including timing closure, clock-domain crossing, and simulation-based verificationSerial interface design experience on low-power, resource-constrained systems: LVDS signaling, framing and error detection, SPI/I2C, register mapsDesign of safety-relevant or fault-tolerant digital systemsHands-on inductive power transfer or resonant/magnetics designHigh-density PCB and flex design in Altium; SPICE and signal-integrity analysisAbility to read, debug, and review embedded C firmwareExperience taking electronic subsystems from prototype through design verification into productionNice to HaveActive implantable device experience (neurostimulators, cochlear implants, cardiac rhythm devices)Custom silicon co-design and FPGA emulation of partner RTLFunctional safety standards (IEC 60601-1 PEMS, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO-254)Implantable or body-worn antenna/RF design with EM simulation (HFSS, CST, COMSOL)Coil design and EM/thermal modeling, including MRI compatibilityLow-noise neural or bioelectric front-end designExperience supporting IDE, PMA, or 510(k) submissions