FPGA Engineering Intern

Location: Los Angeles, CA or Louisville, KY

About the work

Support digital logic, signal processing, AI acceleration and hardware testing on Microchip PolarFire and/or Xilinx/AMD devices. This remains an internship, with engineering tasks scoped to the candidate’s experience and the selected development platform.

What you will do

• Develop and simulate VHDL/Verilog modules, testbenches and reproducible hardware builds.
• Support fixed-point implementations of feature extraction such as FFT, envelope detection, RMS and harmonic analysis where relevant to the assigned design.
• Explore VectorBlox CNN/SNN acceleration and Xilinx Versal AI acceleration modules within the team’s existing platform work.
• Work on MIPI CSI-2, DDR, high-speed data paths and memory management; assist with ADC or processor interfaces when required by the selected board.
• Support hardware bring-up, timing closure and comparisons between simulated and measured behavior.
• Record latency, resource use and power measurements where equipment permits, and document numerical precision and test coverage.
• Maintain design notes and verification evidence that make engineering review and future assurance work easier.

What you bring

• Basic Verilog or VHDL knowledge.
• Familiarity with Libero, Vivado, Vitis or similar tools.
• Interest in AI on FPGA, embedded digital design or hardware signal processing.

Useful additional experience

Fixed-point arithmetic, DSP coursework, HLS, simulation/testbench development or a small FPGA project with documented results.

Initial project to agree

An initial project could be one feature-extraction block with a reference model, testbench and hardware demonstration, including resource/timing results and known limitations. The team will agree a suitable scope and platform.

About AstraQua

AstraQua is developing a modular autonomy architecture with AQFM as its shared intelligence foundation. Specialized agents contribute perception, reasoning, health and coordination. AstraSense is the health-intelligence agent, with electrified aviation as an initial research application; it connects condition and remaining capability with mission decisions. Our approach to safe AI emphasizes defined operating boundaries, deterministic safety controls, operator authority and behavior designed for verification and validation.

How to apply

Email your resume, job title and preferred location (Los Angeles, CA or Louisville, KY) to careers@astraqua.com. Include a short interest statement.