# (Senior) FPGA Engineer

We are looking for a (Senior) FPGA Engineer to build the realtime image-processing hardware behind our displays, based at our Helsinki HQ. Our optics are computational, so the FPGA isn't a supporting act: it's where sensor data becomes a lightfield the eye can use, under a latency budget with no slack. You'll do it with agentic AI in the loop, an approach only a few have taken into FPGA work yet. WHY DISTANCE? At Distance Technologies, the problem we're solving is simple to state and hard to solve: the amount of data in the world is endless, but human capacity is not. We are building a fundamentally new perception layer between humans and machines, transforming transparent surfaces into interfaces unlike the world has ever seen. Think of the windscreen of a car, the visor of a helmet, or a sight device, each becoming a new front-end for AI. The way we turn bits and atoms into expanded human perception is protected by over 50 granted international patent families. We build it for two demanding worlds: defense and automotive. And we build it from a single foundation fusing software, hardware and computational optics. There are 50 of us today, with decade-long experience building worl

- **Id**: 1231958
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/distance-technologies-senior-fpga-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Countries**: FI
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-17T07:42:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T07:32:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 87
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4428
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AR & VR Software, Virtual & Augmented Reality

## Company

- **Id**: 1889259
- **Name**: Distance Technologies
- **Domain**: distance.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/distance-tech>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 58000
- **Max usd**: 133000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1936

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Lattice Diamond** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **VHDL** — Optional: no
- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 87

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T15:17:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.415
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 87
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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