Senior FPGA Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

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

Company

hirify.global develops launch vehicles and aerospace systems, including the Terran R rocket and its supporting factory and avionics infrastructure.

What you will do

• Analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware for the Terran R launch vehicle.
• Own FPGA development across the full lifecycle, from concept and initial design through flight maturity, production, integration, and vehicle operations.
• Perform RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, board bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Support design verification, qualification, hardware integration, and flight production across multiple products.
• Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams.
• Use project management skills to keep hardware programs reliable and on schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of FPGA development and high-speed digital systems experience in mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics.
• Technical expertise across the FPGA lifecycle, including RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, bring-up, and validation.
• Experience with one or more HDLs, including VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis.
• Familiarity with FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms from AMD Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, or similar vendors.

Nice to have

• DSP experience in RF applications, including forward error correction, channel estimation, front-end theory, or modulation schemes.
• Familiarity with SpinalHDL, Chisel, Vitis, SystemC, Simulink, or other HLS and code-generation tools.
• Familiarity with RISC-V development toolchains.
• Experience with version and configuration control, change traceability, code coverage analysis, and CI/CD build pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership and autonomy within a cross-functional avionics organization.
• Opportunity to work on hardware that will fly on the Terran R vehicle.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Commitment to diversity, fairness, and equal employment opportunity.