Staff FPGA Verification Engineer Verified today

The Role

You will provide technical leadership for the verification of FPGA-based hardware solutions for products and platforms. This role contributes to product development by establishing FPGA verification methodologies, resolving complex engineering challenges, and advancing FPGA solutions that improve product performance, reliability, and mission success.

What You Will Do

• 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 (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university.
• 8 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.

Employment Details

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

Location and Requirements

Based in El Segundo, CA. To conform with United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, 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.