Senior Staff FPGA Engineer

Join our team as a Senior Staff FPGA Engineer, where you will be responsible for FPGA circuits and systems throughout the development process. You will work in a startup environment, developing leading-edge hardware for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in FPGA design, verification, test, and deployment at the HDL level, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Lead FPGA design and verification efforts for space-based programs, ensuring compliance with industry standards and program requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define FPGA architecture, partitioning, interface definitions, and specifications based on high-level system requirements.
• Mentor and guide junior FPGA designers to drive for efficiency, quality, and consistency in FPGA design and verification efforts.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces and power optimization techniques for space applications

Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog design capture

• Strong understanding of space environment considerations and radiation effects on FPGA parts to develop mitigation techniques
• Proven track record of successful FPGA designs deployed in space programs

Requirements

• 12 years of industry or university research experience in the design, analysis, and implementation of FPGA systems at the HDL level
• Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• A Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution
• Proficient in HDL coder, Modelsim RTL simulation tools, Xilinx and Microsemi tool flows
• Expertise in FPGA implementation (synthesis, place and route and timing closure) and verification
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently with a distributed team
• Proficiency with git source code control
• Experience developing firmware using agile flows

Preferred

• Familiarity with radiation-tolerant FPGA devices (Xilinx Versal, Xilinx UltraScale+, Xilinx RFSoC, Micorsemi PolarFire, RTG-4)
• Experience with worst-case analysis, failure method and criticality analyses, and reliability analysis
• Familiarity with digital communications and digital signal processing
• Experience with board-level hardware design