Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop new logic components for FPGAs.
- Implement custom signal-processing algorithms on FPGAs.
- Implement custom controllers on FPGAs.
- Collaborate with software engineers to develop embedded Linux applications that interface with FPGA logic components.
- Package and use IP components in FPGA block diagram designs.
- Work with development boards and in production environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science.
- Hands-on electrical experience from internships or engineering clubs such as FSAE, Baja SAE, solar car, rocket club, or robotics club.
- Experience developing in VHDL or Verilog.
- Preferred experience with Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC and familiarity with the Xilinx Vivado/Vitis toolchain.
- Preferred embedded software experience, including embedded Linux and System on Chip architectures.
- Preferred experience with heterogeneous computing platforms and high-speed data acquisition systems.
- Familiarity with C/C++ or other high-level programming languages.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to apply first-principles reasoning to complex problems.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work in Hawthorne five days per week, with very limited exceptions.
- Significant stock option packages.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with PPO and HMO options.
- Life insurance and traditional and Roth 401(k).
- Relocation assistance.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and generous paid parental leave with extended transition support for the birthing parent.
- Free daily catered lunch and dinner, a stocked kitchenette, flexible work hours, casual dress, and regular catered team-building events.
About Freeform
Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits. We are a team of first-principles thinkers driven by a shared mission: to build the fundamental technology that moves the world forward. We believe that solving the foundational challenges of production requires a massive diversity of expertise, deep collaboration, low ego, and a healthy sense of humor. Whether you are an engineer, a builder of systems, or a creative problem-solver in any field, we invite you to help us align the physical world with the pace of human imagination. We are backed by industry leading VC's including Founders Fund, NVIDIA's NVenures, Threshold Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Linse Capital, 8VC, Valor, and more who share our conviction in scaling Physical AI to revolutionize manufacturing.