Senior FPGA Design Engineer for Space & Defense

ARQUIMEA; Madrid; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

ARQUIMEA, a technology company with global reach, seeks an FPGA Design Engineer in Madrid to design and verify digital hardware for embedded space and defense applications. You will lead front-end HDL design, verification plans, and SoC/IP architecture decisions.

Requirements include a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Physics, 5+ years in FPGA design, and proficiency in English. EU work eligibility and travel may be needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in digital hardware/FPGA design.
• Experience in space/aerospace/defense or high-reliability sectors preferred.
• Proficient in English; Spanish a plus.
• Eligible to work in the EU and travel to the US if required.

Responsibilities

• Work in a multidisciplinary team developing FPGA IP cores, ASICs, standard ICs and related software for space and defense programs.
• Define architecture of digital ICs, SoCs and FPGA IPs with feasibility analyses and design trade-offs.
• Front-end design and verification of digital modules at RTL level from requirements to sign-off.
• Model and simulate complete solutions to evaluate and optimize digital circuits.
• Plan, execute and document verification, testing and debugging on FPGA prototypes.
• Collaborate with validation and test teams during bring-up and qualification of ICs and IP blocks.
• Define FW/SW architecture for SoCs embedded in FPGAs and coordinate integration with digital hardware.
• Create and maintain technical and project documentation.
• Analyze alternative solutions using quantitative metrics for technical decisions.

Skills

HDL Front-end

FPGA design

RTL verification

Digital design basics

State machines

Arm/RISC-V/MicroBlaze

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Physics

Master’s or PhD valued

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

HDL Author

ModelSim

Questa

Git

MATLAB

Job description

ARQUIMEA, a technology company with global reach, seeks an FPGA Design Engineer in Madrid to design and verify digital hardware for embedded space and defense applications. You will lead front-end HDL design, verification plans, and SoC/IP architecture decisions.

Requirements include a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Physics, 5+ years in FPGA design, and proficiency in English. EU work eligibility and travel may be needed.