Senior Staff FPGA Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Austin, TX, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead FPGA design and verification for space-based programs while ensuring compliance with industry standards and program requirements.
• Define FPGA architecture, partitioning, interfaces, and specifications with systems engineering, hardware, and software teams.
• Develop architectures from high-level system requirements, including device selection, SWAP-C estimates, utilization, and power optimization.
• Design and validate HDL-based FPGA systems with high-speed serial interfaces, data streams, digital processing cores, multiple clock domains, and management interfaces.
• Present engineering design reviews to customers and executives, contribute to proposals, and act as a technical subject matter expert.
• Mentor junior FPGA designers and track emerging technologies for future space applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 12 years of industry or university research experience designing, analyzing, and implementing FPGA systems at the HDL level.
• Proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog, FPGA synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and verification.
• Experience with radiation-tolerant FPGA devices and space-environment considerations, including radiation-effect mitigation techniques.
• Experience with HDL Coder, ModelSim RTL simulation, Xilinx and Microsemi tool flows, and laboratory test equipment.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, refugee, or otherwise eligible to obtain required U.S. government authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with worst-case, failure mode and criticality, and reliability analyses.
• Knowledge of digital communications, digital signal processing, board-level hardware design, and power optimization.
• Experience working with distributed teams, Git, and agile firmware development flows.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, autonomous, and cross-functional work environment.
• Full-time employment with company stock options.
• Benefits include health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.