Senior Avionics FPGA Design & Verification Engineer - TeraWave

Job Title

Senior Avionics FPGA Design & Verification Engineer - TeraWave

Role Summary

Join the Spacecraft Systems team to design, develop, and verify FPGA-based avionics for Blue Origin's TeraWave satellite communications system. The role covers requirements definition, architecture, RTL design, verification, environmental qualification, and flight integration support for high-reliability satellite avionics.

Experience Level

Senior — typically requires 7+ years of experience in digital design and SoC architecture.

Responsibilities

Deliver FPGA-centric digital hardware and verification for flight avionics; participate across the design lifecycle from requirements through production release and flight support.

• Design and develop digital hardware architectures for high-reliability satellite avionics.
• Create and implement RTL for critical SoC blocks and interfaces.
• Optimize architectures for performance, power, and cost trade-offs.
• Collaborate on and execute design verification plans to ensure robust designs.
• Apply advanced verification techniques (Assertion-Based Verification, UVM, constrained-random).
• Support prototype development and early hardware validation.
• Document design specifications, architecture decisions, and implementation details.
• Participate in design reviews and technical discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex digital design issues, including firmware/hardware interfaces.
• Support integration, environmental qualification, and flight readiness activities.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, tools, and program eligibility.

• 7+ years of experience in digital design and SoC architecture.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog or Verilog for RTL implementation.
• Experience with SoC integration and interface design; knowledge of bus protocols such as AXI/AHB.
• Understanding of digital timing, synchronization, and RTL-to-gates design flow; familiarity with synthesis tools.
• Experience with simulation, debugging complex digital systems, and evaluation of code coverage metrics (e.g., QuestaSim).
• Strong FPGA experience and FPGA tool flow knowledge.
• Experience with assertion-based verification, UVM, and constrained-random techniques.
• Ability to implement and verify interfaces between digital hardware and firmware/software.
• Experience supporting prototype hardware and early validation activities.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) due to export-control requirements.
• Nice-to-have: SoC-level architecture optimization for power/performance/cost and experience with production release processes for flight hardware.

Education Requirements

B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

About the Company

Company: Blue Origin

Headquarters: Kent, Washington, United States

Blue Origin is an American aerospace company developing technologies for spaceflight, including reusable launch vehicles, orbital and suborbital systems, and space infrastructure for commercial and government customers.