FPGA Engineer

PAVE Space SA; Villeneuve (VD); Remote; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space SA seeks an experienced FPGA designer to shape the electronics of our next-generation avionics. You will decide where FPGAs belong in the architecture and carry your designs from concept to bench validation for high-reliability missions.

You’ll own the full FPGA flow—from architectural decisions and block diagrams to place-and-route, through verification and bring-up on real boards. This on-site role is based in Villeneuve (VD), with a hands-on, fast iteration culture.

Qualifications

• Several years FPGA design experience, ideally in high-reliability setting.
• Strong experience in simulation and verification of FPGA designs.
• Experience covering the whole flow, from architecture to place and route.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA board bring-up and debugging.
• Clear and effective communication in English.
• Nice to have: FPGA PCB design; familiarity with space standards; DSP or mixed-signal experience.

Responsibilities

• Define how FPGAs fit into our next-generation avionics architecture.
• Architecture and implement FPGA design, from first block diagram to place and route.
• Verification of your designs, and support for verification of the boards they run on.
• Contribute to our hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure.

Skills

FPGA design

Simulation & verification

Full FPGA flow

Bring-up & debugging

English communication

Space standards knowledge

DSP/Mixed-signal

Job description

Our next generation of avionics needs someone to decide where FPGAs belong in it, then design that logic from the ground up.

PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-ton payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours.

So, why now?

We're defining the next generation of our avionics, and how FPGAs fit into it is still an open question. You'll answer that question, and you’ll carry your designs from architecture through verification to a board on the bench, with design iterations measured in weeks, not quarters.

You will own

Define how FPGAs fit into our next-generation avionics architecture

Architecture and implement FPGA design, from first block diagram to place and route

Verification of your designs, and support for verification of the boards they run on

Contribute to our hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure

What we are looking for

Several years of FPGA design experience, ideally in a high-reliability setting

Strong experience in simulation and verification of FPGA designs

Experience covering the whole flow, from architecture to place and route

Hands-on experience with FPGA board bring-up and debug

Clear and effective communication in English

Nice to have: FPGA PCB design (a very strong plus), familiarity with space standards, DSP or mixed-signal experience.

You will fit if

You'd rather help decide where the FPGA goes in the architecture than get a spec someone else already settled.

You don't call a design finished until it works in simulation and on the board.

You're as comfortable at the bench with a scope during bring-up as you are in your simulation environment.

You explain your design choices clearly enough that the board and software engineers around you can build on them.

The position is fully on-site in Villeneuve (VD). We believe a board gets debugged fastest when the people who designed it are standing next to it. Our next-generation avionics are being defined right now, so the architecture isn't settled yet. Expect open questions rather than a finished reference design, and expect some first bring-ups not to go to plan.

What makes that worth it: the choices you make about FPGAs will shape how next generation of avionics is built. You'll carry those choices all the way to a board you brought up yourself.

We are building to ship, grounded on real hardware, real funding, real milestones.