Senior Principal FPGA & Digital Signals Processing Engineer.

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The Role:Senior principal engineer role focused on FPGA and digital signal processing for RF, wireless, and electronic warfare systems.
The Person:The person will lead FPGA firmware architecture, migrate GPU-based signal processing into FPGA implementations, build real-time RF signal processing systems, and support verification, integration, and field testing.
Requirements:The role requires a bachelor’s degree, 10+ years of FPGA development experience, active Secret clearance, and proficiency with VHDL and/or SystemVerilog, RTL design, Vivado, Vitis, MATLAB and/or Python, and C/C++.

About the role

Position Title: Senior Principal Field Programmable Gate Array & Digital Signal Processing Engineer

Location: Hybrid, in office in Alexandria, VA

Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI

Employment Type: Full Time

Research Innovations, Inc. (RII) is breaking through the big, slow status quo with transformative technology that fundamentally improves the world. We build advanced software solutions for government and military missions, applying agile development and user-centered design to solve complex, mission-critical problems.

Dragonfly is redefining tactical SIGINT and Electronic Warfare by combining advanced RF sensing, GPU-accelerated processing, artificial intelligence, and high-performance FPGA architectures into a portable, mission-ready platform. As the Principal FPGA & DSP Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader responsible for designing and delivering the next generation of real-time FPGA-based signal processing capabilities that enable rapid spectrum awareness, signal exploitation, and electronic warfare operations. Working closely with hardware, software, AI, and RF engineering teams, you will architect high-performance firmware solutions that transform advanced algorithms into deployable capabilities supporting the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and allied mission partners.

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At RII, we believe that diversity in our workforce is critical to our success. We strive to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger. We work to help your intellectual passions and creativity thrive. It’s one of our core values: Let your geek flag fly.

We also offer all employees comprehensive benefits including: flexible work schedules, health insurance coverage, paid time off, 401k with a company match, paid parental leave, access to wellness programs and much more. You get this all from day one, and all paid for by RII.

It’s all part of another of our core values: Stay human. It’s why our comfortable and colorful offices such as our headquarters, include a community game room, pantry, massage chair, and an escape room, among other amenities. It’s why we have community ambassadors and regular community events.

Research Innovations Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Published August 14, 2026

Location Alexandria, VA

Category None

Job Type Full-Time

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