Senior FPGA Engineer, Space Systems (Hybrid)

MDA Space; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health care & disability protection

Pension plan and life insurance

Job summary

MDA Space is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to join our UK team, delivering high‑reliability satellite payload designs for space missions. You will work within a multi‑disciplinary engineering group on telecommunications payloads, digital design and IP blocks for space applications.

The role requires extensive hands‑on FPGA experience (10+ years), proficiency with VHDL/SystemVerilog and toolchains (Vivado, Modelsim, Libero).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of FPGA engineering experience in space or high‑reliability sectors.
• Strong understanding of FPGA technology for space.
• Experience with VHDL and SystemVerilog.
• Familiar with FPGA design tools: Vivado, Modelsim, Libero.
• Knowledge of digital communications and DSP.
• Experience leading complex FPGA projects.
• Desirable: high reliability design / space payloads / signal integrity analysis.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team of engineers developing satellite telecommunication payloads for a variety of orbits and missions
• Flow down of sub‑system requirements to the FPGAs
• FPGA verification for high reliability / space systems
• Architecture, design and implementation of complex designs with Microchip FPGAs for space applications
• Development of IP blocks for AMD SoCs

Skills

FPGA engineering

Space experience

VHDL

SystemVerilog

FPGA verification

Tools

Vivado

ModelSim

Libero

Job description

MDA Space is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to join our UK team, delivering high‑reliability satellite payload designs for space missions. You will work within a multi‑disciplinary engineering group on telecommunications payloads, digital design and IP blocks for space applications.

The role requires extensive hands‑on FPGA experience (10+ years), proficiency with VHDL/SystemVerilog and toolchains (Vivado, Modelsim, Libero).