CubeSat FPGA Engineer: Space-Qualified Payloads & RTL

Baryonic Space; Çankaya; On-site; TRY 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Fuel support

Professional development opportunities

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Baryonic Space is seeking an FPGA Engineer to design, implement, and validate FPGA-based CubeSat payload systems. You will work across RTL/IP development, high-speed interfaces, embedded Linux, and PS-PL integration to deliver robust flight-ready architectures.

You will collaborate with RF, DSP, and software teams to ensure deterministic performance under space constraints and participate in verification, validation, and environmental test support.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional FPGA development experience (space or high-reliability systems preferred).
• Strong experience with Xilinx Zynq / Zynq Ultrascale+ architecture.
• Experience integrating and debugging complex block designs in Vivado.
• Working knowledge of Yocto/PetaLinux, device trees, and embedded Linux build systems.
• Experience with JESD204B, high-speed transceivers (GTH/GTY), and multi-gigabit data paths.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement FPGA architectures for CubeSat payloads using Xilinx Zynq/Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC platforms.
• Develop custom RTL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog) IP cores and integrate third-party IP.
• Architect data pipelines from high-speed interfaces to memory and processor subsystems with deterministic latency.
• Implement robust supervisory logic (watchdogs, heartbeat monitors, fault recovery state machines).
• Perform timing closure, resource optimization, power budgeting, and constraint management (XDC).
• Design and validate high-speed interfaces (JESD204B, SpaceWire, CANBus/RS-485).
• Develop Yocto/PetaLinux build environments and integrate FPGA fabric with ARM PS-PL.

Skills

FPGA development

Xilinx Zynq / Zynq Ultrascale+

HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Embedded Linux

RTL/IP development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Vivado

ILA/VIO

Yocto/PetaLinux tooling

CANBus/SpaceWire interfaces

Job description

Baryonic Space is seeking an FPGA Engineer to design, implement, and validate FPGA-based CubeSat payload systems. You will work across RTL/IP development, high-speed interfaces, embedded Linux, and PS-PL integration to deliver robust flight-ready architectures.

You will collaborate with RF, DSP, and software teams to ensure deterministic performance under space constraints and participate in verification, validation, and environmental test support.