Senior Principal Engineer - FPGA

Overview

Senior Principal Engineer role leading FPGA architecture, DO-254 certification and model-based FPGA development for avionics products at Collins Aerospace, an RTX business.

What you'll do

• Lead development of high-performance reusable FPGA architectures for various product lines.
• Lead DO-254 compliance and certification activities for FPGA-based avionics products, providing technical leadership across planning, development, verification, validation, and certification documentation.
• Drive compliance with DO-254 processes and coordinate with engineering, quality, and certification teams to support successful product certification.
• Work closely with systems engineers, hardware designers, embedded software teams, and test/validation groups to ensure cohesive product development.
• Lead timing closure strategies and performance optimizations to meet real-time latency, throughput, and power requirements.
• Lead FPGA/ASIC obsolescence management across products, driving lifecycle monitoring, risk assessment, alternate part evaluation, and FPGA/ASIC redesign/migration strategies.
• Lead FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB/Simulink for different Avionics products.
• Drive algorithm modelling, simulation, FPGA implementation, verification, and provide technical leadership across projects and teams.
• Evaluate and recommend next-generation FPGA families, IP cores, high-speed transceivers, and design tools to improve performance and reduce risk.
• Author and review detailed design specifications, interface control documents, verification plans, and executive summaries for stakeholders.
• Guide selection, deployment, and optimization of FPGA EDA tools, building automation systems, and continuous integration practices tailored for avionics development.
• Mentor engineers across experience levels, guiding complex design decisions and performance tradeoffs.
• Use AI tools and provide guidance to the team.
• Communicate with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, Internal Leadership, and Customers.

What you'll need

• Engineering degree and minimum 15 years prior relevant experience in FPGA/ASIC design and verification.
• Experience leading multiple FPGA/ASIC development projects for Aerospace products from concept till DO-254 certification.
• Experience in FPGA/ASIC obsolescence redesign and DO-254 certification.
• Experience in FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB.
• Experience in high-speed serial protocols, Image and Video Processing domains.
• Experience with VHDL and SV/UVM.
• Experience leading technical projects including customer interaction and briefing leadership.

Nice to have

• Ability to interface within the wide spectrum of individual contributors to program management and customers.
• Ability to effectively document and present one's work and status.
• Experience with Change Management, Earned Value Management and Lifecycle Program Management.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Subversion, Jira, Jama, DOORS, and other documentation tools.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Northgate, Sy No 2/2 Venkatala Village, Yelahanka Hobli).
• Role type: Hybrid, with onsite and offsite work ratio determined with your leader.
• Background check required for all external new hires in India; drug screen applies to Operations positions only.