Principal FPGA Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Irvine, California, United States. The role operates in a professional office environment within a manufacturing company.

Salary: $175,000–$230,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global manufactures satellite products and provides end-to-end satellite solutions for aerospace, defense, civil, and commercial missions.

What you will do

• Own FPGA RTL development from architecture definition through verification, integration, qualification, and flight readiness.
• Define FPGA architecture and requirements with systems, hardware, and embedded software teams.
• Develop RTL for Microchip PolarFire, AMD Zynq US+, Versal, and related avionics platforms.
• Perform simulation, test-bench development, timing closure, resource analysis, hardware validation, and DVT.
• Lead design reviews, maintain requirements traceability, document FPGA operation and integration, and support board and system bring-up.
• Drive architecture decisions, cross-functional technical discussions, troubleshooting during avionics and flight testing, and mentoring of junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 12+ years of FPGA RTL architecture, development, and verification experience.
• Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog or VHDL, advanced verification methodologies, and worst-case timing analysis.
• Experience with Microsemi PolarFire, AMD Zynq Versal, and AMD Ultrascale, plus Vivado and Mentor ModelSim/QuestaSim.
• Experience with high-speed buses and interfaces including AXI, PCIe, DDR4/DDR5, JESD204B/C, 100Gb Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN FD, and LVDS.
• Experience developing high-speed NAND flash controllers, including interface timing optimization, ECC integration, bad-block management, DMA architecture, and high-throughput data paths.
• Familiarity with Git-based collaborative development, Python, Tcl, Bash, Linux, and C/C++.
• Experience designing for space environments, including radiation impacts and mitigations.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance are required. Applicants must also meet U.S. space-technology export-control eligibility requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position in an office and manufacturing environment with substantial computer usage and routine physical requirements.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) match, Flexible Time Off, paid life insurance, and competitive paid parental leave.
• Education or tuition reimbursement, employee referrals, and company merchandise.