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Senior Staff FPGA Engineer Verified today

CesiumAstro · Westminster, CO · Electronics · first seen 2026-09-25
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About the Role

You will be responsible for FPGA circuits and systems through all phases of development. Your work will include high-speed serial interfaces and data streams, digital processing cores, multiple clocks and clock domains, and management interfaces. Testing, validation, and verification are central to every FPGA design you deliver.

As a senior staff engineer, you will present design review materials to customers and leadership, participate in proposal writing, and mentor junior FPGA designers. You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead FPGA design and verification for space-based programs, ensuring compliance with industry standards and program requirements.
  • Work with system engineering, hardware designers, and software engineers to define FPGA architecture, partitioning, interface definitions, and specifications.
  • Develop FPGA architecture from high-level system requirements; formulate part selections and SWAP-C estimates with focus on FPGA utilization and power consumption.
  • Act as subject matter expert in design reviews, bringing technical expertise and insight to cross-functional teams.
  • Mentor and guide junior FPGA designers to drive efficiency, quality, and consistency.
  • Monitor emerging technologies to drive future product development for space applications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.
  • 12 years of industry or university research experience in FPGA design, analysis, and implementation at the HDL level.
  • Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog design capture.
  • Familiarity with radiation-tolerant FPGA devices: Xilinx Versal, Xilinx UltraScale+, Xilinx RFSoC, Microsemi PolarFire, RTG-4.
  • Expertise in FPGA implementation (synthesis, place and route, timing closure) and verification.
  • Proficiency with HDL coder, Modelsim RTL simulation tools, Xilinx and Microsemi tool flows.
  • Strong understanding of space environment considerations and radiation effects on FPGA devices; ability to develop mitigation techniques.
  • Hands-on experience with lab instruments: digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers.
  • Experience with high-speed interfaces and power optimization techniques for space applications.
  • Proven track record of successful FPGA designs deployed in space programs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Experience

  • Worst-case analysis, failure mode and criticality analysis, and reliability analysis.
  • Digital communications and digital signal processing.
  • Board-level hardware design.
  • Distributed team collaboration.
  • Git source code control.
  • Agile firmware development flows.

Employment

Full-time position. CesiumAstro offers stock options and benefits including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with space technology export regulations.