Amazon
Sr. FPGA Engineer, Amazon Leo for Government
$185K–$250K
Northridge, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Location
- Northridge, CA
NORTHRIDGE, CA - Experience
- 7+ years each in digital design and verification in communication systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a US Government TS/SCI security clearance.
About the job
Develops and validates FPGA-based modem and digital logic solutions for Amazon Leo satellite communications, including high-speed optical links.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, simulate, validate, and release FPGA solutions through RTL design, physical implementation, timing closure, and lab validation.
- Collaborate with RF, optical communications, signal processing, systems, hardware, firmware, and software teams to develop and bring up modem and digital logic functions.
- Perform architecture and technology trade-offs, optimize cost, size, power, performance, and features, and integrate FPGA IP cores.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of digital design in communication systems experience and 7+ years of verification in communication systems experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Knowledge of serial protocols including SPI, I2C, I3C, and UART.
- U.S. citizenship; must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government TS/SCI security clearance.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience in RTL coding and debug, performance/power/area trade-offs, modern ASIC/FPGA tools, or SoC bring-up and post-silicon validation.
Pay
185,200.00 - 250,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Xilinx Vivado, Microchip Libero, Vivado / Vitis, Linux, Python
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