FPGA Engineer (Controls & Signal Processing)

In This Role You Will

• Design, implement, and verify the FPGA fabric at the heart of our custom hardware, from real-time control and signal processing to high-speed sensor and data interfaces.

• Own the build flow: synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, and timing closure on real silicon.

• Develop testbenches, simulation, and co-simulation to verify behaviour at unit and system level.

• Take designs from RTL through board bring-up, integration, and lab debug under real operating conditions all the way through to production-ready.

• Keep the design understandable: specifications, timing budgets, and verification plans.

What We're Looking For

• Strong digital design fundamentals: RTL in SystemVerilog (or VHDL), and a solid grasp of computer architecture.

• The ability to reason about fixed- and floating-point data paths and pipelines - where precision goes, where it costs you, and how a computation maps onto real hardware.

• Experience closing timing: static timing analysis, writing constraints, clock-domain crossing, and synchronization.

• Fluency with at least one vendor toolchain (Xilinx/AMD, Intel/Altera, or Lattice), in a heavily scripted setting.

• Comfortable reading schematics, reasoning from first principles, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with electronics and mechanical engineers.

• The ability to take designs from benchtop prototype to production ready.

• Fluency in English (German not required, though useful!).

Bonus Points If You Have

Having done these before is a plus, not a prerequisite. You'll do much of it in the role:

• Rust or embedded firmware experience.

• DSP in fabric: filtering (FIR/IIR), FFT, and fixed-point implementation.

• Control theory: system identification, plant modeling, and loop tuning.

• High-speed ADC/DAC interfaces and sensor/communication protocols.

• Expert knowledge of version control, especially git.

• Safety-critical or certified design.

• Experience collaborating across analog, software, and mechanical domains.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a real impact working on some of the biggest challenges of our time

• A fast-paced learning environment alongside an outstanding, driven team

• Ownership from day one, with the ability to iterate quickly and see your impact firsthand in an early-stage startup

• Visa sponsorship & relocation benefits to hire the best in the world

• A world-class in-person setup in central Zürich, with excellent prototyping, robotics, and technical infrastructure for hands-on builders

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation