Hardware/FPGA Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware/FPGA Engineer

• Focus: FPGA-based subsystems for space and mission-critical communications

Description

You will build advanced digital processing systems by owning the full hardware lifecycle of complex FPGA-based board designs. You will write and verify RTL, integrate firmware onto FPGA/FPGA SoC platforms, and support bring-up, integration, and flight qualification. Work includes high-speed interface design, signal/power integrity simulation, and debug in the lab under radiation-tolerant and high-reliability constraints.

Role Description / Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-speed digital boards, including schematic capture and layout guidelines

• Develop, simulate, and verify FPGA RTL in SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL for control, data processing, and communication functions

• Integrate and deploy firmware onto FPGA and FPGA SoC platforms

• Design high-speed interfaces including DDR4, SERDES, UART, I2C, SPI, and LVDS; run signal and power integrity simulations in HyperLynx

• Conduct worst-case electrical analysis to verify design margins across space environment conditions

• Lead laboratory board bring-up, hardware/firmware integration, and debug using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers

• Apply flight hardware and firmware design practices with radiation-tolerant, high-reliability components and thermal constraints

• Perform mixed-signal circuit design with high-resolution ADC and DAC interfaces

• Author and maintain documentation: schematics, block diagrams, testbenches, and interface control documents

Requirements

• 4+ years combined experience in high-speed digital board design and FPGA and RTL development

• Proficiency writing synthesizable RTL in SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL

• Hands-on work with FPGA design suites and EDA tools (AMD Xilinx Vivado, Intel Altera Quartus, Synopsys Synplify)

• Hands-on work with schematic capture tools (Mentor Xpedition, Cadence, Altium)

• Proven laboratory debugging experience integrating firmware onto physical target boards

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

• U.S. Citizenship required; must be able to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance

• Willingness to travel up to 10%

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.