FPGA Development Lead (level 4)

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Cedar Park (TX)

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USD 140.000 - 190.000

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Short term disability

Flexible PTO

Descrizione del lavoro

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is hiring an FPGA Development Lead to shape high‑reliability FPGA solutions for launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground systems. You will be a senior technical leader, hands‑on contributor, and mentor for a fast‑paced aerospace team based in Texas.

You will guide RTL design, verification, timing closure, and hardware integration while partnering with embedded software, hardware, and systems engineering to ensure robust avionics across missions.

Competenze

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Minimum 8+ years of FPGA development experience.
Strong proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog for RTL design.
Experience with high‑reliability aerospace hardware.
Demonstrated ability to mentor or technically lead other engineers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering is a plus.

Mansioni

Provide technical direction and mentorship to FPGA engineers.
Drive RTL implementation, verification strategies, timing closure, and lab bring‑up.
Own significant portions of FPGA designs from concept through implementation and integration.
Help establish FPGA development processes for design, verification, timing analysis, and integration.
Collaborate with embedded software, hardware, and systems engineering leads for avionics integration.

Conoscenze

FPGA development

VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog

Timing closure

FPGA lab bring-up

Mentoring / technical leadership

Communication skills

High-speed interfaces (SERDES, PCIe, ,

Formazione

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

Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Strumenti

Tcl

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
- Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
- 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
- $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Summary

As the FPGA Development Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Firefly Aerospace and space exploration. You will serve as a senior technical leader and hands‑on contributor, designing, implementing, and verifying high-reliability FPGA designs for our launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground systems.

You will provide technical direction, mentor engineers on complex FPGA problems, and drive best practices while remaining deeply involved in RTL design, verification, timing closure, and hardware integration. This role requires strong technical depth in FPGA development for aerospace applications, the ability to influence and elevate the work of others, and a deep passion for space exploration.

You will partner closely with embedded software, hardware, GNC, and systems engineering leads to ensure high-quality, reliable FPGA solutions and continuous improvement of our development approach. Candidates should be prepared for a fast-paced startup environment. This position requires high levels of creativity, flexibility, technical ownership, and collaboration. The ability to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural group is a must.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical direction and guidance to FPGA engineers. Mentor teammates on architecture, RTL design, verification strategies, timing closure, and debugging. Help grow the technical capability of the team through knowledge sharing, design reviews, and hands‑on collaboration.
Technical Excellence: Drive adoption of best practices in FPGA development, reliability, and design verification. Act as a lead contributor to the architecture, RTL implementation, and verification of high-reliability FPGA designs.
Hands‑on Development: Own significant portions of FPGA designs from concept through implementation, timing closure, lab bring‑up, integration, and verification. Contribute directly to RTL coding, constraint development, simulation, and problem resolution.
Process Improvement: Help establish and refine clear FPGA development processes for design, verification, timing analysis, and integration that the team can effectively apply.
Collaboration & Integration: Work closely with embedded software, hardware engineering, systems engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of FPGA designs with overall avionics and vehicle systems.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Minimum 8+ years of FPGA development experience.
Strong proficiency in VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog for RTL design.
Experience with FPGA architectures (e.g., AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera, or similar) including timing closure, place‑and‑route, and constraints.
Hands‑on experience with FPGA lab bring‑up, debugging, and integration with embedded systems or hardware.
Demonstrated ability to mentor or technically lead other engineers (formal people management not required).
Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements.
Team player with a can‑do attitude; comfortable contributing both independently and collaboratively.
Enjoys being challenged and learning new skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Experience with high-speed interfaces (SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SpaceWire, or similar).
Familiarity with radiation‑tolerant or space‑qualified FPGA devices and SEU mitigation techniques.
Experience with verification methodologies (UVM, constrained‑random testing, formal verification, or similar).
Integration experience with SoCs, embedded processors, or mixed‑signal systems.
Exposure to synthesis, static timing analysis, and power/thermal considerations for flight hardware.
Comfortable with scripts and command‑line tools (Tcl, Python, etc.).
Prior experience in aerospace, space systems, or other high‑reliability domains.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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