Senior Principal Engineer - FPGA
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026. RTX scores B on the Alion truth index.
Date Posted:
2026-11-03Country:
IndiaLocation:
IN-KA-BENGALURU-NORTHGATE ~ Sy No 2/2 Venkatala Village ~ SY NO 2/2 VENKATALA VILLAGE, Yelahanka HobliPosition Role Type:
HybridAbout RTX
RTX is a global aerospace and defense company with more than 185,000 employees worldwide. We push the boundaries of technology and innovation to help create a safer, more connected world. Through our industry-leading businesses-Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon-we deliver advanced solutions for commercial aviation, defense, and connected technologies.
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in aerospace and defense technologies, delivering intelligent solutions that redefine the future of aviation. Our Digital Technology (DT) organization enables business transformation by providing secure, scalable, and innovative digital solutions that support our global operations, customers, and suppliers.
Join our Digital Technology team and play a key role in driving digital transformation across our global Supply Chain organization while collaborating with talented professionals around the world.
What You Will Do
Lead development of high-performance reusable FPGA architectures for various product lines.
Lead DO-254 compliance and certification activities for FPGA-based avionics products, providing technical leadership across planning, development, verification, validation, and certification documentation. Drive compliance with DO-254 processes and coordinate with engineering, quality, and certification teams to support successful product certification.
Work closely with systems engineers, hardware designers, embedded software teams, and test/validation groups to ensure cohesive product development.
Lead timing closure strategies and performance optimizations to meet real-time latency, throughput, and power requirements.
Lead FPGA/ASIC obsolescence management across products, driving lifecycle monitoring, risk assessment, alternate part evaluation, and FPGA/ASIC redesign/migration strategies.
Lead FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB/Simulink for different Avionics products. Drive algorithm modelling, simulation, FPGA implementation, verification, and providing technical leadership across projects and teams.
Evaluate and recommend next-generation FPGA families, IP cores, high-speed transceivers, and design tools to improve performance and reduce risk.
Author and review detailed design specifications, interface control documents, verification plans, and executive summaries for stakeholders.
Guide selection, deployment, and optimization of FPGA EDA tools, building automation systems, and continuous integration practices tailored for avionics development.
Mentor engineers across experience levels-guiding complex design decisions, performance tradeoffs.
Able to use AI tools and provide guidance to the team.
Communicate with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, Internal Leadership, and Customers.
What You Will Learn
You will learn the technologies of today and tomorrow which we count on to maintain world leadership in the avionics industry.
You will learn all phases of the hardware product life cycle from requirements through to verification, while employing the company engineering processes to produce high-quality products.
You will learn the requirements for product certification required by federal agencies.
You will learn how to establish and maintain a computing module platform product line with a broad base of customers.
Qualifications You Must Have
Engineering Degree and minimum 15 years prior relevant experience in FPGA/ASIC design and verification.
Experience with leading multiple FPGA/ASIC development projects for Aerospace products from concept till DO-254 certification.
Experience in FPGA/ASIC obsolescence redesign and DO-254 certification.
Experience in FPGA development using Model-Based Design with MATLAB.
Experience in high-speed serial protocols, Image and Video Processing domains.
Experience with VHDL and SV/UVM.
Experience leading technical projects including customer interaction and briefing leadership.
Qualifications We Prefer
Able to interface within the wide spectrum of individual contributors to program management and customers.
The ability to effectively document and present one’s work and status.
Experience with Change Management, Earned Value Management and Lifecycle Program Management
Experience with Microsoft Project, Subversion, Jira, Jama, DOORS, and other documentation tools.
WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.
*Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.
Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.
Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.
Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world - and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.
Some of our competitive benefits package includes:
Benefits package includes:
- Meal coupons
- Group Term Life Insurance.
- Group Health Insurance.
- Group Personal Accident Insurance.
- Entitled for 18 days of vacation and 12 days of contingency leave annually.
- Employee scholar programme.
- Work life balance.
- Car lease programme.
- National Pension Scheme
- LTA
- Fuel & Maintenance /Driver wages
- Meal vouchers
Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.
Note:
- Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the India)
- Drug Screen only performed for Operations Positions
At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form - with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.
Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining
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