FPGA RF Signal Processing Engineer (RF)

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, California; on-site three days per week

Salary: $173,000–$196,000 per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations that deliver mission-critical Earth observation data, including climate monitoring and national security applications.

What you will do

• Implement and optimize RF processing algorithms on FPGAs for real-time execution.
• Prototype, model, and port algorithms to ARM FPGA-SoCs.
• Design, simulate, implement, and integrate DSP and modulation algorithms for communications, electronic support measures, and radar applications.
• Collaborate with RF hardware engineers on communications and instrument bring-up, calibration routines, and system integration.
• Write technical documentation, design specifications, and test reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience developing FPGA implementations of RF algorithms.
• Experience with RF DSP techniques such as spectrum monitoring, signal intelligence, modulation and demodulation, filtering, channel estimation, equalization, synchronization, AGC, or DPD.
• Expertise in RTL/HDL using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL, together with FPGA architecture and design flows.
• Ability to work with distributed, interdisciplinary teams and familiarity with modern software development practices.
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status, eligibility for access without export authorization, or eligibility for required U.S. export authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience with Xilinx/AMD RFSoC or MPSoC.
• Proficiency in C/C++, Rust, or Python for embedded, real-time, and analysis applications.
• Experience with DPD, beamforming, MIMO, radar signal processing, modulation schemes, channel coding, multirate signal processing, or adaptive filtering.
• Experience with RF concepts, calibration algorithms, space-based applications, embedded CI/CD, Git, JTAG, GDB, and laboratory instrumentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in a spacecraft manufacturing and payload integration facility in Silicon Valley.
• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations during the application process.