CesiumAstro
Senior FPGA Engineer
Austin, TX · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 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
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain 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, and supports customer reviews and proposals.
What you'll do
- Develop FPGA HDL designs, including high-speed serial interfaces, digital processing cores, clock domains, and management interfaces.
- Test, validate, verify, and deploy FPGA designs using lab equipment.
- Present engineering design review materials 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, including Verilog/VHDL and FPGA tools.
- Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Aerospace design and qualification; worst-case, failure mode and criticality, or reliability analysis.
- Board-level hardware design or familiarity with communications systems such as digital signal processing.
Tools
Verilog/VHDL, HDL coder, Xilinx’s Vivado, Modelsim
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