Harmattan Ai
FPGA Engineer - Electronic Warfare
Paris. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will design and implement real-time digital signal processing for Electronic Warfare and SIGINT systems. You will work on RTL, RF and data converter interfacing, and hardware/software partitioning.
What you will do
- Design and implement signal-processing datapaths in VHDL or SystemVerilog
- Implement detection, direction-finding, classification and waveform generation
- Own the digital interface to the RF front-end
- Define the split between programmable logic and on-chip processors
- Drive constraints, timing closure, and resource, power and thermal budgets
- Lead FPGA bring-up on new boards
- Perform bench validation against performance targets with RF instrumentation
- Conduct over-the-air testing alongside the systems team
- Collaborate across RF hardware, embedded, GNC and ML teams
- Contribute to design and architecture reviews
Required qualifications
- Strong RTL design background in VHDL or SystemVerilog for signal-processing datapaths
- Solid digital signal processing fundamentals: sampling, mixing, decimation, filter design, FFT, and fixed-point arithmetic and quantization trade-offs
- Hands-on experience with SoC FPGAs and their toolchains
- MSc in Electrical / Electronics Engineering, Signal Processing or a related field
- Broad engineering culture with understanding of RF hardware, embedded software and system-level trade-offs
- Rigorous, structured and mission-driven mindset with strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication and documentation abilities
Nice to have
- Experience with high-speed data converter interfaces (JESD204B/C) and multi-channel synchronization
- Experience with algorithm-to-RTL workflows (MATLAB/Simulink, Python modelling, or HLS)
- Lab experience with RF instrumentation — spectrum analyzer, vector signal generator, oscilloscope
About the company
Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.