FPGA Engineer (Space)

Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States. US citizenship required. The role includes travel of up to 10%.

Salary: $140,500–$221,500 annually. For specific work locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area: $174,000–$261,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops communication services and systems for consumers, businesses, governments, and military customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of FPGA-based digital systems.
• Develop RTL in Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL for control, data processing, and communication functions.
• Integrate and deploy designs on FPGA and FPGA SoC platforms, including simulation, place and route, hardware testing, and system integration.
• Develop high-speed digital signal-processing and waveform-processing algorithms for satellite communications.
• Define timing constraints, analyze timing results, close timing, and debug designs in the lab using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and other instrumentation.
• Lead or participate in trade studies, design and code reviews, documentation, validation, production support, and improvements to FPGA development practices.

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, timing considerations, RTL design, simulation, and testbench development.
• Experience designing signal-processing blocks such as equalizers, correlators, filters, and FEC encoders and decoders.
• Experience with programmable-logic EDA tools, lab instrumentation, schematics, and collaboration with hardware design teams.
• US citizenship is required.

Nice to have

• MSEE degree.
• Experience with TCL, Perl, Python, or another scripting language; SERDES, DDR2/3/4, and LVDS interfaces.
• SystemVerilog verification, UVM, RTL optimization, Linux development environments, GitHub, Matlab, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AI agents, troubleshooting, and satellite communication waveforms and standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across multiple engineering disciplines and team sizes.
• Autonomous work on well-defined problems with limited instruction.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits may be included depending on the position.
• Additional cash or stock incentives may be available.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.