Senior FPGA Engineer, Software-Defined Radio/DSP

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $148,000–$222,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops launch vehicles, including Terran R, and the avionics systems that connect and control the vehicle’s electrical systems.

What you will do

• Analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware for the Terran R launch vehicle.
• Own FPGA development across the lifecycle, from concept and board bring-up through verification, qualification, flight production, integration, and vehicle operations.
• Implement DSP and digital communications algorithms in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Develop and integrate high-speed data converter interfaces and DSP pipelines.
• Perform hardware validation, debugging, timing analysis, and data analysis.
• Collaborate with avionics, propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams to support vehicle-level decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of FPGA development experience, including substantial DSP/SDR work on mission-critical systems such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics.
• Strong knowledge of digital communications theory, including modulation, matched filtering, synchronization, equalization, and forward error correction.
• Proficiency in multirate signal processing, filter design, FFT-based processing, and fixed-point quantization analysis.
• Experience with RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, hardware bring-up, and validation across the FPGA lifecycle.
• Experience with JESD204B/C or similar high-speed data converter interfaces and familiarity with FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms from AMD Xilinx, Intel, or Microchip.

Nice to have

• Experience with SDR platforms or frameworks such as USRP, RFSoC, or GNU Radio.
• Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, or Python/NumPy for algorithm modeling.
• Familiarity with RISC-V development toolchains and rigorous software development processes.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership and autonomy on avionics components that will fly.
• Cross-functional collaboration across avionics design, manufacturing, testing, propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.