Space Avionics FPGA Engineer – Autonomy & RTL

PassFort; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

28 Days Annual Leave

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Contributory pension

Job summary

Lodestar in the United Kingdom is seeking an Avionics FPGA Engineer to design, implement and validate advanced avionics architectures for autonomous space platforms. You will work across the full lifecycle from concept and simulation to hardware testing and on-orbit readiness.

The role emphasizes SystemVerilog/Verilog RTL, FPGA/SoC integration, lab testing, and collaboration with systems, software and hardware teams.

Qualifications

• BEng / MEng in Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog and/or Verilog, with a solid grasp of RTL design principles.
• Hands-on experience with at least one FPGA family or ecosystem
• Familiarity with common digital interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
• Experience with simulation and formal verification
• Experience dealing with clock domain crossings, static timing analysis and timing closure.
• Comfort scripting for automation, ideally in Python and/or TCL.
• Hands on experience with lab test equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and power supplies.
• Clear communication and a proactive, curious approach to picking up new tools and ideas.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and verify RTL in SystemVerilog and/or Verilog for FPGA and SoC targets.
• Bring up and integrate SerDes interfaces and memory interfaces.
• Develop testbenches and formal proofs to ensure module and system level correctness
• Conduct hardware debugging and system level testing using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and other lab instrumentation.
• Collaborate closely with systems, avionics software and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration of RTL designs into flight systems.
• Contribute to design documentation, test plans, and the evidence needed for design reviews, and support environmental qualification and verification testing (EMC, vibration, thermal vacuum, etc.)

Skills

RTL design

SystemVerilog

Verilog

FPGA design

clock domain crossings

timing closure

Python scripting

lab debugging

clear communication

Education

BEng/MEng in Electrical Engineering

Tools

FPGA development tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

PCB design tools

Microchip FPGAs

Lab equipment

Job description

Lodestar in the United Kingdom is seeking an Avionics FPGA Engineer to design, implement and validate advanced avionics architectures for autonomous space platforms. You will work across the full lifecycle from concept and simulation to hardware testing and on-orbit readiness.

The role emphasizes SystemVerilog/Verilog RTL, FPGA/SoC integration, lab testing, and collaboration with systems, software and hardware teams.