Senior Principal FPGA & Digital Signals Processing Engineer
Research Innovations
·Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- Alexandria, VA
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Electronic Warfare/Signals Intelligence
- Seniority
- Senior
- Education
- PhD
- Clearance
- Required
- Source
- Lever
Description
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.