FPGA Engineer (Space)

Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States

Salary: $132,500–$209,500 annually. For specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area: $164,500–$246,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops communications technologies and satellite infrastructure for consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries worldwide.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, design, and implementation of FPGA-based digital systems.
• Develop RTL in Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL for control, data processing, and communications functions.
• Integrate and deploy designs on FPGA and FPGA SoC platforms.
• Develop high-speed digital signal-processing and waveform-processing algorithms for satellite communications.
• Define timing constraints, analyze timing results, and implement changes to close timing.
• Support hardware bring-up, integration, validation, production, and laboratory debugging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of FPGA design experience, including Xilinx Vivado.
• Strong knowledge of SystemVerilog and/or VHDL, digital logic, and timing considerations.
• Experience designing signal-processing blocks such as equalizers, correlators, filters, and FEC encoders and decoders.
• Experience with FPGA EDA tools, simulation, testbench development, reusable RTL design, and laboratory instrumentation.
• US citizenship required; ability to travel up to 10%.

Nice to have

• MSEE degree.
• Experience with TCL, Perl, Python, high-speed interfaces, UVM, Linux, GitHub, MATLAB, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of satellite communication waveforms and standards.
• Familiarity with AI coding agents and strong troubleshooting skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to advanced communications products and systems.
• Collaboration across hardware, software, and systems engineering disciplines.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits may be included in the compensation package.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity work environment.