Electrical & FPGA Design Engineer (FPGA)

Location: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States

Company

hirify.global supports NASA spaceflight programs through the development and qualification of advanced aerospace electronics.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of mixed analog/digital electronic hardware for spaceflight applications.
• Develop board-level architectures, schematics, component selections, verification plans, and technical documentation.
• Develop and validate VHDL FPGA designs for radiation-tolerant and commercial FPGA architectures.
• Perform circuit simulations, worst-case analysis, component derating, part stress analysis, and thermal assessments.
• Support PCB layout, integration, troubleshooting, vibration testing, thermal-vacuum testing, and system-level verification.
• Lead formal design reviews, interface with NASA customers and subcontractors, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience for Engineer V; 12+ years of progressively responsible experience for Engineer VI.
• Experience designing mixed analog/digital circuit boards and developing hardware through requirements, qualification, and testing.
• Experience with schematic capture and circuit simulation tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD, and LTSpice.
• Experience with formal engineering documentation, test procedures, environmental testing, and technical reviews.
• Engineer VI candidates must demonstrate technical leadership on complex aerospace or spaceflight hardware programs.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with Libero, ModelSim, Active-HDL, Xilinx Vivado, and radiation-hardened FPGA devices.
• Experience with spacecraft avionics, scientific instrumentation, sensors, and interfaces including RS-422, RS-485, I²C, SPI, UART, SpaceWire, PCIe, and JTAG.
• Experience supporting NASA, DoD, or other government aerospace programs.
• Active Secret security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time engineering position supporting regulated flight hardware development.
• Collaboration with NASA customers, subcontractors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Travel as needed.