Star Catcher
Electrical Engineer - Digital Hardware
Jacksonville, Florida, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in digital hardware design, FPGA-based systems, or high-speed digital PCB design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual 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 and verifies digital hardware and high-speed circuit card assemblies for spacecraft power-beaming systems and Star Catcher’s orbital power grid.
What you'll do
- Develop digital hardware and high-speed PCB designs throughout the CCA design lifecycle, from requirements through integration and test.
- Design mixed-signal assemblies using processors, microcontrollers, FPGA/CPLD, and memory; support board layout and compute module integration.
- Perform design analysis and verification, and support board bring-up, debugging, and component selection.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in digital hardware design, FPGA-based systems, or high-speed digital PCB design.
- Experience designing with processors, microcontrollers, FPGA/CPLD, and memory devices (DDRx, SRAM, ROM, Flash).
- Familiarity with FPGA/SoC platforms and toolchains; working knowledge of SI/PI simulation and timing analysis tools.
Nice to have
- Exposure to backplane architectures, radiation-tolerant design practices, or spacecraft data bus standards.
- Experience with Altium Designer or equivalent EDA tools, high-speed memory interfaces, or MATLAB/Python for analysis or test automation.
Tools
FPGA/CPLD, DDRx, SRAM, ROM, Flash, HyperLynx, Ansys, Altium Designer
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