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Principal FPGA Engineer

Los Angeles, USAfull_timePosted 9 Jul 2026

About the role

<h2>PRINCIPAL FPGA ENGINEER </h2> 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.  As a Principal FPGA Engineer at Freeform, you will architect and lead development of our next-generation compute platform, a distributed system of hundreds of FPGAs orchestrating many dozens of high-power lasers in real time. This is not a standard FPGA role. You will be pushing the boundaries of what’s physically possible with reconfigurable compute: processing hundreds of thousands of frames per second through a real-time ML inference pipeline, with latency budgets that leave no margin for error. You will leverage cutting-edge silicon including the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC, and tightly couple FPGA fabric with state-of-the-art GPUs to build one of the most demanding heterogeneous computing platforms in existence.  We are pioneering the use of FPGAs for real-time machine learning in an industrial manufacturing context, a space where almost no prior art exists. This is core IP work at the frontier of what FPGA-based computing can do, and it sits at the heart of what makes Freeform’s technology unlike anything else in the world.  3D printing experience is not required to be successful here - rather we look for smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who love solving hard problems and creating amazing technology!&l