Sr. FPGA Engineer II Verified today
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems. The Space Systems division builds complete spacecraft, precision payloads, and components including solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, and radios. Rocket Lab Optical Systems solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance challenges for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers.
The Role
As a Senior Firmware Engineer II for Rocket Lab Optical Systems in Chantilly, VA, you will design FPGAs for advanced electro-optical space payloads supporting Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
What You'll Do
- Work with the hardware design team on requirements
- Complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing
- Support hardware and software development teams in bring-up and test of products
- Provide subject-matter expertise regarding design and automated test development procedures to customers and production support team
- Perform research and analysis of data, such as customer proposed specifications, datasheets, or manuals to determine design approach and feasibility
- Execute debugging of the design in the lab
- Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent discipline
- 8+ years of experience writing FPGA firmware from scratch in VHDL
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture
- Experience with FPGAs and embedded systems in a radiation environment, including SEU/SEL impact and mitigation
- Experience in FPGA- or ASIC-based image processing algorithms
- Experience creating IP from scratch in RTL and integrating existing IP into RTL and block designs
- Familiarity with C, Python or MATLAB and/or experience translating algorithms from a scripted language to HDL
- Experience with software interfaces including interrupts and DMA
- Experience with DDR4, Aurora, and high-speed transceiver design and verification
- Familiarity with AXI Stream and AXI Memory Mapped interfaces
- PCB design and schematic capture and layout with tools such as Altium Designer
Compensation
Base salary range (VA): $143,300 - $214,850 USD. Compensation includes eligibility for company stock, cash incentives, discounted stock purchase program, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and paid parental leave.
Employment Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations including ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or Commerce.