Electrical & FPGA Design Engineer

Astrion is seeking a highly experienced Electrical & FPGA Design Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and testing of advanced electronics for NASA spaceflight programs at Kennedy Space Center, FL. This full-time role involves leading the development of mixed analog/digital circuit card assemblies and FPGA-based hardware for spacecraft instrumentation, avionics, and scientific payloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of mixed analog/digital electronic hardware for spaceflight applications.
• Develop system and board-level architectures, schematics, and component selections using industry-standard ECAD tools.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, component derating, part stress analysis, and thermal assessments.
• Develop FPGA designs using VHDL for radiation-tolerant and commercial FPGA architectures.
• Verify FPGA functionality through simulation, timing analysis, and hardware validation.
• Support PCB layout development by defining stackups, routing requirements, signal integrity constraints, and component placement guidelines.
• Develop verification plans, test procedures, and automated test software to support functional, environmental, and acceptance testing.
• Support integration, troubleshooting, vibration testing, thermal-vacuum testing, and system-level verification activities.
• Lead technical reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and peer design reviews.
• Interface directly with NASA customers, subcontractors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple projects.
• Prepare technical documentation, engineering reports, design packages, and verification documentation.

Requirements

Engineer V

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing mixed analog/digital circuit boards.
• Experience with schematic capture tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD, or equivalent.
• Experience with circuit simulation tools such as LTSpice or equivalent.
• Experience performing worst-case analysis, component derating, and part stress analysis.
• Experience developing hardware through the complete product lifecycle from requirements through qualification.
• Experience developing engineering documentation and formal test procedures.
• Ability to support environmental testing including vibration and thermal-vacuum testing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Engineer VI

• In addition to the Engineer V qualifications, typically 12+ years of progressively responsible engineering experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex aerospace or spaceflight hardware programs.
• Experience serving as technical lead or lead design engineer on multiple hardware developments.
• Experience leading formal design reviews and mentoring engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex technical problems and provide strategic engineering guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• FPGA development using VHDL.
• Experience with Libero, ModelSim, Active-HDL, or Xilinx Vivado.
• Experience with Microchip/Microsemi, AMD/Xilinx, or radiation-hardened FPGA devices.
• Experience with spacecraft avionics or scientific instrumentation.
• Experience with interfaces including: RS-422, RS-485, I²C, SPI, UART, SpaceWire, PCIe, JTAG.
• Experience integrating sensors such as thermistors, pressure transducers, flow meters, sun sensors, or similar instrumentation.
• Experience supporting NASA, DoD, or other government aerospace programs.
• Active Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple technical efforts simultaneously.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience supporting flight hardware development within a highly regulated environment.