CesiumAstro
Senior FPGA Engineer
$133K–$161K
Westminster, CO · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 6 years of industry or university research experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee or refugee, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Designs, verifies, tests, and deploys FPGA circuits and systems for satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace applications.
What you'll do
- Develop FPGA designs across the development lifecycle, including high-speed interfaces, data streams, processing cores, clock domains, and management interfaces.
- Test, validate, and verify FPGA designs; present design reviews to customers and executives and contribute to proposals.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.
- At least 6 years of industry or university research experience designing, analyzing, and implementing FPGA systems at the HDL level.
- Expertise in FPGA design and verification using Verilog/VHDL, HDL coder, Xilinx’s Vivado, Modelsim, or similar tools.
- Hands-on experience with lab instruments, plus excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Aerospace design and qualification; reliability, worst-case, failure mode, and criticality analyses.
- Board-level hardware design or familiarity with communications systems such as digital signal processing.
Pay
USD 133,000–161,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Verilog/VHDL, HDL coder, Xilinx’s Vivado, Modelsim
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