Senior FPGA Engineer
About this role
Company Overview:
Thor Dynamics is a pioneering company specializing in directed energy systems for counter-drone defense. Our mission is to deliver affordable, scalable drone defense solutions that protect critical targets and infrastructure from aerial threats. With cutting-edge research and development facilities in Helsinki and a global team of innovators, Thor Dynamics is at the forefront of advanced laser technology, electro-optical tracking, and defense systems. Our work demands exceptional performance in real-time sensing, tracking, and control, and we are building systems where latency, determinism, and hardware efficiency are mission-critical. This version keeps the same overall style and company framing as your earlier posting.
Position Overview:
Responsibilities
- Design and implement FPGA architectures for real-time electro-optical tracking, video processing, and control.
- Develop high-throughput, low-latency RTL for image pipelines, filtering, tracking, buffering, synchronization, and hardware interfacing.
- Lead hardware/software partitioning decisions across FPGA fabric, embedded processors, memory, and peripheral interfaces.
- Optimize designs for timing closure, deterministic behavior, bandwidth efficiency, and resource utilization.
- Integrate FPGA designs with cameras, frame grabbers, sensors, motor controllers, and other system hardware.
- Develop and maintain simulation, verification, and test
About Thor Dynamics Oy
Thor Dynamics is a pioneering company specializing in directed energy systems for counter-drone defense. Our mission is to deliver affordable, scalable drone defense solutions that protect critical targets and infrastructure from aerial threats. With cutting-edge research and development facilities in Helsinki and a global team of innovators, Thor Dynamics is at the forefront of advanced laser technology, electro-optical tracking, and defense systems. Our work demands exceptional performance in real-time sensing, tracking, and control, and we are building systems where latency, determinism, and hardware efficiency are mission-critical. This version keeps the same overall style and company framing as your earlier posting. Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior FPGA Engineer to join our team in Helsinki. The successful candidate will lead the implementation of high-performance electro-optical tracking and video-processing systems on FPGA-based hardware platforms. This is a hands-on role for someone with deep expertise in digital design and hardware acceleration, capable of translating demanding real-time system requirements into robust, low-latency FPGA architectures suitable for deployment in operational environments.