Senior FPGA Engineer Verified today

CesiumAstro · El Segundo, CA · Electronics · first seen 2026-09-25

CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and aerospace platforms. We are seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join our El Segundo team.

What you will do

  • Design, verify, test, and deploy FPGA circuits and systems at the HDL level
  • Develop high-speed serial interfaces, digital processing cores, and management interfaces
  • Perform testing, validation, and verification of FPGA designs
  • Present engineering design review materials to customers and executives
  • Participate in proposal-writing efforts

Required qualifications

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
  • Minimum 6 years industry or university research experience in FPGA design, analysis, and implementation at HDL level
  • Expertise in FPGA design and verification: Verilog, VHDL, HDL Coder, Xilinx Vivado, Modelsim
  • Hands-on experience with digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred experience

  • Aerospace design and qualification
  • Worst-case analysis, failure mode and criticality analyses, reliability analysis
  • Board-level hardware design
  • Digital signal processing and communications systems

Employment

Full-time position. Compensation includes company stock options and benefits: health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.

Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.