Star Catcher
Senior Electrical Engineer - FPGA Firmware
Jacksonville, Florida, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional FPGA gateware design and verification experience.
- 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, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR; employment also requires proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.
About the job
Leads FPGA firmware and gateware development for real-time control systems in spacecraft power-beaming technology, from architecture and verification through hardware integration and qualification.
What you'll do
- Architect and lead FPGA designs for control loops, including pointing, acquisition, and tracking; allocate system requirements and coordinate interfaces with hardware, software, and systems teams.
- Lead gateware development, simulation, timing closure, integration, and test; establish development and verification standards and mentor engineers.
- Select and qualify FPGA/SoC platforms and toolchains, and support qualification, production testing, and troubleshooting.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of professional experience designing and verifying FPGA gateware in VHDL or Verilog.
- Experience with FPGA/SoC design toolchains, including synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure.
- Demonstrated real-time control-loop implementation in reconfigurable logic, plus version-control best practices for FPGA baselines.
Nice to have
- Radiation-tolerant FPGA/SoC experience, DSP or signal processing, spacecraft protocols, or advanced simulation and verification methods.
- Experience with high-speed, control, or memory interfaces; space hardware architectures; NASA/DoD reviews; or mentoring and design standards.
Tools
VHDL, Verilog, Microchip RTG4, RT PolarFire, AMD XQR Kintex UltraScale, XQR Versal, CCSDS, PCIe
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