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FPGA Engineer – Space Technology

We are looking for an adaptable, curious, and skilled FPGA Engineer to join us. If you enjoy a role where no two days are exactly the same, and you are eager to grow your skills alongside industry experts, we want to hear from you.

Your Day-to-Day (Key Responsibilities)

As part of our collaborative engineering team, you will dive into a diverse mix of firmware design, system integration, and cutting-edge hardware development. On any given day, you will:

• Design & Develop: Author and maintain general-purpose and mission-specific RTL/firmware for space electronics, FPGAs, microcontrollers, and RTOS-based systems.
• Build Critical Interfaces: Develop firmware for vital peripheral interfaces, including Converters (ADC/DAC) and high-speed communication links (SpaceWire, SPI, CameraLink, 1Gb+ Ethernet, MIL-1553B).
• Automate & Deploy: Create and optimize automated FPGA platform build scripts, and get hands-on by deploying firmware directly to physical hardware.
• Optimize for Space: Fine-tune embedded software to ensure fault tolerance and high reliability in radiation-hardened environments.
• Test & Validate: Conduct hardware-in-the-loop system integration, testing, and validation under both simulated and real-world aerospace conditions.
• Ensure Excellence: Support the team in maintaining alignment with rigorous space industry standards (NASA, ESA, MIL-STD).

What You Bring (Qualifications)

We are seeking a foundational engineer who loves solving hardware puzzles and is ready to take their experience to the next level.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Core Experience: 2–3 years of professional experience (non-academic) designing with Hardware Description Languages (VHDL or Verilog).
• Hands-on Skills: Proven experience deploying firmware to physical devices, as well as conducting system integration, testing, and validation.
• Security: Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications (The "Nice-to-Haves"):

• If you have familiarity with or exposure to any of the following, we’d love to talk about it!
• Hardware & Tools: Experience with Xilinx devices/toolchains (Zynq, Virtex, Kintex via Vivado/ISE) or Microchip devices/toolchains (RTAX, ProASIC, RTG4 via Libero).
• Design Techniques: Familiarity with multiple clock-domain design, physical constraints, floor planning, and in-system debuggers/logic analyzers.
• Software & Scripting: Knowledge of C/C++, Python, Java, or Tool Command Language (TCL).
• Verification & Architecture: Exposure to linting, constrained random testing, RTOS, bare-metal development, or hardware-software co-design.

ITAR Requirement:

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants will be asked to provide specific documentation to verify U.S. person status under the ITAR and the EAR.  A “U.S. person” according to their definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee, or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

Benefits:  AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.  For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit:  .

Principals only need apply.  NO agencies please.