Senior FPGA Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

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

Company

hirify.global develops rockets and launch infrastructure, including the Terran R launch vehicle, to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware for the Terran R launch vehicle.
• Lead FPGA development across multiple products from concept through flight maturity and vehicle operations.
• Perform RTL design, board bring-up, design verification, qualification, production support, integration, and validation.
• Debug hardware and analyze data to ensure reliable digital electronics performance.
• Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams.
• Apply project management skills to keep hardware development 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.
• Experience with FPGA development across RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, bring-up, and validation.
• Familiarity with 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, and modulation schemes.
• Familiarity with SpinalHDL, Chisel, Vitis, SystemC, or Simulink for code generation or High-Level Synthesis.
• Familiarity with the RISC-V development toolchain.
• Experience with rigorous software development processes, version and configuration control, code coverage, traceability, and CI/CD build pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership and autonomy in shaping avionics architecture and flight hardware.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• Parental leave.
• Annual learning and development stipend.