FPGA Logic Design Manager

🔷 Duluth, GA (Onsite) | Aerospace & Avionics

🔷 9/80 Schedule Available – Every Other Friday Off

At Universal Avionics, we develop advanced avionics, enhanced vision systems, and intelligent cockpit technologies that improve aviation safety and situational awareness worldwide. For over 40 years, Universal Avionics has been a trusted innovator in aerospace technology, supporting commercial airlines, business aviation, cargo operations, and special mission aircraft around the globe.

We are seeking an experienced FPGA / PLD Development Manager to lead our PLD Development team within the Hardware Engineering organization. This role combines deep technical leadership with people leadership, driving the architecture, development, verification, and certification of complex avionics firmware solutions in compliance with DO-254 standards.

What You’ll Do

As the FPGA / PLD Development Manager, you will lead and guide a team responsible for the full PLD development lifecycle for avionics products. Responsibilities include:

• Leading the architecture, implementation, verification, and certification of FPGA/PLD solutions for avionics systems

• Managing technical execution across requirements, RTL design, low-level verification, hardware integration, and problem resolution

• Driving compliance with DO-254 processes, airworthiness requirements, and engineering quality standards

• Collaborating cross-functionally with Systems, Hardware, Software, Verification, and Certification teams

• Supporting proposal and capture activities, including technical concepts, cost estimates, staffing plans, and schedules

• Developing team capability through mentoring, coaching, technical leadership, and continuous improvement

• Managing department priorities, staffing plans, execution quality, and engineering performance

• Helping build next-generation avionics technologies that directly impact flight safety and operational effectiveness

Why Engineers Love Working Here:

• Meaningful Technology.

• Work on advanced avionics systems used in mission-critical flight operations across commercial, business, and special mission aircraft platforms.

• Complex Engineering Challenges.

• Lead highly technical FPGA and PLD development efforts spanning architecture, RTL design, verification, certification, integration, and system-level problem solving.

• Leadership with Technical Depth.

• This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys mentoring engineers while remaining closely connected to technical execution and engineering excellence.