Alta Ares

FPGA Engineer - Radar

Paris. Posted a month ago

The role

The FPGA Engineer will turn radar sensing requirements into FPGA designs for drone detection. This role involves defining radar data acquisition and processing while working across RF, electronics, and software teams.

What you will do

  • Turn radar sensing requirements into FPGA designs
  • Define how radar data is acquired, processed, and delivered
  • Establish processing budgets and select implementation approaches
  • Develop reference models to study radar behavior
  • Build reusable RTL functions for waveform generation and receive processing
  • Implement processing stages to extract targets from radar returns
  • Integrate ADC/DAC interfaces and coordinate timing
  • Specify how detections and measurements are passed to tracking functions
  • Verify designs against reference models through automated testbenches and hardware-in-the-loop testing
  • Investigate performance gaps on target hardware and document design decisions

Required qualifications

  • At least three years of FPGA development experience
  • Practical exposure to radar or sonar processing
  • Ability to take a signal-processing function from an algorithmic description to verified RTL in VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • Strong DSP foundations, including FFT, digital filtering, windowing, and the effects of quantization and fixed-point precision
  • Understanding of how radar systems estimate target range and velocity, distinguish returns from clutter, and set detection thresholds
  • Working knowledge of matched filtering, pulse compression, range-Doppler maps, and CFAR techniques
  • Familiarity with FMCW and pulsed radar
  • Experience assessing radar performance through simulation
  • Experience developing testbenches, debugging FPGA hardware, and validating processing chains with hardware-in-the-loop methods
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Applied Physics, or a related field

About the company

Alta Ares is an air defense Neoprime that builds AI-guided interceptors to counter drones and cruise missiles. Founded in 2024, the company has 90 people and serves NATO-aligned militaries and defense institutions.