Senior FPGA Engineer

About the role

At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Senior FPGA Engineer to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing leading-edge hardware for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems, we would like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for FPGA circuits and systems through all phases of the development process.
• Experience in FPGA design, verification, test, and deployment at the HDL level.
• FPGA HDL designs 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 tasks for any FPGA design.
• Experience in digital signal processing or board-level hardware design is desirable.
• Present engineering design review materials to customers and executive team.
• Participate in proposal-writing efforts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State (export compliance).
• Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution.
• Minimum of 6 years of industry or university research experience in the design, analysis, and implementation of FPGA systems at the HDL level.
• Expertise in FPGA design and verification (Verilog/VHDL, HDL coder, Xilinx’s Vivado, Modelsim, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers.
• Excellent written