# Principal Digital RTL Engineer

About Roguebeam Roguebeam is a startup developing advanced phased array systems for communications and radar applications. We design and manufacture complete systems in-house-RF, antenna, PCB, ASIC/digital, and DSP-giving our engineers end-to-end ownership of the technology and a direct line of sight from algorithm to deployed system. We’re early, we’re growing fast, and the people who join us now will shape both the technology and the company. The Role We're looking for a Principal Digital RTL Engineer to set the architecture and technical direction for the digital control, beamforming, and interface logic at the heart of our phased-array products. As one of our earliest principal digital hires, you will define how we partition, specify, implement, and sign off digital silicon-not just execute a spec handed down to you. You'll own the digital subsystem from architecture through RTL, synthesis/timing strategy, and silicon/FPGA bring-up, working as a peer with RFIC, antenna, and DSP leads. The decisions you make will define product capability and how the digital team scales. Responsibilities Own digital architecture for beamformer control, phase/amplitude interfaces, calibration, hi

- **Id**: 1399924
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/roguebeam-principal-digital-rtl-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States, San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T18:16:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T04:46:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4227
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: RF & Wireless Hardware, Defense Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 3787219
- **Name**: Roguebeam
- **Domain**: roguebeam.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/roguebeam>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 160000
- **Max usd**: 296000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 656

## Technologies

- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T14:53:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.537
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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