Senior FPGA Engineer II

Job Title

Senior FPGA Engineer II

Role Summary

Design, verify, test, and deploy FPGA-based systems for satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace communication products. Work across hardware and firmware teams to implement HDL designs, validate high-speed data paths, and support board- and system-level integration.

Work is hands-on and autonomous; responsibilities include technical design reviews and contribution to proposals and customer interactions.

Experience Level

Senior — requires substantial, typically 6+ years of relevant industry or research experience in FPGA/HDL system development.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include design through delivery of FPGA circuits and systems.

• Develop and maintain FPGA RTL (Verilog/VHDL) for data-processing cores, high-speed serial interfaces, and management interfaces.
• Architect and implement multi-clock-domain designs and clocking strategies.
• Create and run verification plans, simulations, and hardware-in-the-loop tests for FPGA designs.
• Perform testing, validation, and troubleshooting using lab instruments and test equipment.
• Support board-level bring-up and system integration activities.
• Prepare and present engineering design reviews to internal teams and customers.
• Contribute to proposal writing and documentation for customer-facing work.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, security/eligibility, and experience.

• Minimum of 6 years of industry or research experience designing and implementing FPGA systems at the HDL level.
• Proven expertise in Verilog and/or VHDL and FPGA toolflows (e.g., Xilinx Vivado, ModelSim, HDL Coder).
• Experience with high-speed serial interfaces and streaming data architectures.
• Experience with verification, validation, and test methodologies for FPGA designs.
• Hands-on experience with lab instruments: digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, vector signal analyzers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical reviews and customer interaction.
• Must meet U.S. Government space export eligibility: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee/refugee, or otherwise eligible for required Department of State authorizations.

Preferred / Nice-to-have

• Aerospace design and qualification experience, including worst-case/failure mode and reliability analyses.
• Board-level hardware design experience.
• Familiarity with communications systems and digital signal processing.

Education Requirements

Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.

About the Company

Company: CesiumAstro

Headquarters: Melbourne, FL, United States

CesiumAstro develops turnkey RF communications and payload systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms, providing hardware and software solutions for space communications, signal processing, and on‑orbit data links.