Medior FPGA Engineer — Onboard Space AI & High-Speed Data

S[&]T; Delft; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual company trip

Modern working environment

Defence & Security domain

Job summary

S&T in Delft seeks a Medior FPGA Engineer to join the Defence & Security team. You will contribute to our first-generation onboard processing platform, developing radiation-tolerant FPGA firmware and high-speed interfaces for spacecraft applications.

Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will drive architecture, verification, and integration from concept to flight-ready hardware, applying VHDL/SystemVerilog, Python, and C/C++ in a demanding space environment.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years FPGA engineering experience.
• Strong VHDL and FPGA-based digital design.
• Strong SystemVerilog testbench design.
• Hands-on Siemens Questa for simulation and verification.
• Experience with AMD and/or Microchip FPGA technologies.
• Knowledge of radiation effects and mitigation techniques for FPGAs used in space environments.
• Experience implementing CAN, PCIe, and Ethernet interfaces.
• Knowledge of SpaceWire and SpaceFibre.
• Experience designing high-throughput data routers or switching architectures.
• Knowledge of ML workloads or accelerators on FPGA platforms.
• Experience signal-processing on FPGAs (FIR, IIR, FFT).
• Strong programming in C, C++, Python; HDL development.
• CI/CD with Git, CMake, GCC.
• Reading and understanding PCB schematics.

Responsibilities

• Develop, verify, and qualify radiation-tolerant FPGA firmware for spacecraft applications.
• Implement and integrate high-speed communication interfaces (Ethernet, SpaceFibre, PCIe).
• Design and optimize 100+ Gbps data-routing architectures with cybersecurity, performance, and fault-tolerance requirements.
• Review PCB schematics and provide FPGA input to Electronics Design Engineering team.
• Develop and optimize FPGA interfaces and drivers for machine-learning and algorithm accelerators.

Skills

VHDL

SystemVerilog

C/C++

Python

FPGA design

CI/CD

PCB schematics reading

machine-learning accelerators

FIR IIR FFT

signal processing

Education

BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Siemens Questa

Git

CMake

GCC

Job description

S&T in Delft seeks a Medior FPGA Engineer to join the Defence & Security team. You will contribute to our first-generation onboard processing platform, developing radiation-tolerant FPGA firmware and high-speed interfaces for spacecraft applications.

Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will drive architecture, verification, and integration from concept to flight-ready hardware, applying VHDL/SystemVerilog, Python, and C/C++ in a demanding space environment.