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Senior FPGA Verification Engineer Verified today

CesiumAstro · El Segundo, CA · Electronics · first seen 2026-10-14
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CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and aerospace platforms. We seek a Senior FPGA Verification Engineer to provide technical leadership for verification of FPGA-based hardware solutions, establishing methodologies, resolving engineering challenges, and advancing solutions that improve product performance, reliability, and mission success.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex FPGA verification, debugging, and qualification activities supporting product development.
  • Evaluate simulation results and engineering risks while directing solutions that improve product performance and reliability.
  • Validate FPGA designs through verification planning, qualification testing, failure analysis, root cause investigations, and engineering change implementation.
  • Develop verification plans and verification review packages supporting engineering decisions.
  • Support customer meetings, design reviews, technical discussions, hardware integration, and product development activities by providing FPGA engineering guidance.
  • Evaluate FPGA verification methods and technical requirements to identify improvements.
  • Drive initiatives that enhance FPGA performance, engineering efficiency, product reliability, design quality, and long-term maintainability.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university.
  • 5 years of industry or university research experience in the design, analysis, and implementation of FPGA systems at the HDL level.
  • Extensive knowledge of digital logic design, FPGA architecture, hardware description languages (HDL), and digital systems.
  • Considerable proficiency developing FPGA verification environments for complex products.
  • Thorough understanding of FPGA verification methodologies, timing closure, embedded systems, and high-speed interfaces.
  • Working knowledge of the UVM Framework (UVMF), including developing reusable testbenches, verification components, and automated test environments.
  • Proficiency with FPGA development, simulation, and synthesis tools such as Vivado, Quartus Prime, ModelSim, QuestaSim, or equivalent.
  • Proficiency with engineering analysis, version control, and collaboration tools such as MATLAB, Git, Jira, Windchill, or equivalent.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Preferred Experience

  • 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to work efficiently with a distributed team.
  • Proficiency with git source code control.
  • Experience developing firmware using agile flows.

Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.