Staff FPGA Verification Engineer Verified today

CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and aerospace platforms. We seek a Staff FPGA Verification Engineer to provide technical leadership for FPGA-based hardware solutions and advance verification methodologies 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university.
• 8 years of industry or university research experience in 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 Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Experience with FPGA development, simulation, and synthesis tools such as Vivado, Quartus Prime, ModelSim, QuestaSim, or equivalent.
• Experience with engineering analysis, version control, and collaboration tools such as MATLAB, Git, Jira, Windchill, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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 company stock options and benefits including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.