FPGA Engineer IV

citjpl; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks an FPGA Engineer IV to join the PROMISE telecom team. You will develop and implement flight FPGA firmware for the Universal Space Transponder family, collaborating with a multidisciplinary group and industry partners.

Responsibilities cover FPGA design, signal processing, interfaces, and flight software integration for NASA mission needs. The role reports to the PROMISE Telecom Product Delivery Manager or PROMISE Radio Cognizant Engineer,

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Electrical Engineering with 9+ years related work experience.
• MA/MS in a related discipline with 7+ years experience.
• PhD in a related discipline with 5+ years experience.

Responsibilities

• Support telecom system engineering team with FPGA requirements development.
• Implement signal processing and high-speed data interfaces in the FPGA using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Implement radiometric processing and telecom waveforms.
• Implement and validate spacecraft telemetry modulation, command demodulation, and flight software interfaces.
• Support radio flight software development and FPFA/firmware integration and testing.
• Support radio and subsystem integration, ATLO, and early operations.
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations for reviews.
• Develop FPGA documentation and test procedures.

Skills

Verilog

SystemVerilog

FPGA

Signal processing

High-speed data interfaces

Telemetry modulation

Education

BA/BS in Electrical Engineering

MA/MS in related discipline

PhD in related discipline

Job description

New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That's our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers-literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission-your opportunity-is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you're driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you're ready for JPL.

Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.

Responsibilities:

The JPL Communications and Instruments Division perform scientific investigations, advanced technology research, engineering developments and system implementations encompassing space telecommunications, tracking and active remote sensing using electromagnetic waves.

The Flight Communications and Tracking Section provides cost-effective space communications systems, software defined radios, high power RF amplifiers, and power supplies that support primary telecom subsystems and major radar and radiometer science payloads. The section also provides Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) flight equipment, radiometric science instruments, high stability frequency standards and clocks and seismometers for NASA/JPL missions. In addition to flight hardware expertise, the section specializes in collection of and processing of worldwide, fixed site, GNSS data that is processed into clock, atmospheric, and ionospheric GNSS correction metrics. The section also develops high stability frequency references and clocks for flight and ground applications.

The Flight Communications & Tracking Section at JPL is looking for an FPGA Engineer IV to join their Software Defined Radios Group to support FPGA development and implementation for the Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping, and In-Situ Exploration (PROMISE) telecom subsystem. The Group leads the development of software / firmware defined digital flight electronics for telecom, radio metrics, and radar support applications. Work includes development and implementation of flight signal processing algorithms, complex spacecraft interfaces, and various data transfer and communications protocols that enable and support telecom, radar science, instruments, and spacecraft safety and health. Group members work on all phases of product development from early concept, low technology readiness specification and prototyping to engineering and flight model development and implementation, functional and environmental testing, and flight operations support.

PROMISE is a NASA lunar rover mission intended to explore the lunar south pole as part of the Moon Base program. As the PROMISE telecom FPGA Engineer, you will be responsible for the development, implementation, test, and delivery of the flight FPGA firmware for one or several FPGA designs that are part of the Universal Space Transponder (UST) radio family. You will be a member of the multidisciplinary implementation team consisting of approximately 7 full-time equivalent employees, industry partners, and subcontractors. You will report programmatically to the PROMISE Telecom Product Delivery Manager or the PROMISE Radio Cognizant Engineer and administratively to the Group Supervisor of the Software Defined Radios Group.

Tasks may include but are not limited to:

• Support telecom system engineering team with FPGA requirements development
• Implement signal processing and high-speed data interfaces in the FPGA using Verilog and System Verilog
• Implement radiometric processing and telecom waveforms
• Implement and validate Spacecraft telemetry modulation, command demodulation, and flight software interfaces
• Support radio flight software development and implementation team during FPGA firmware and software integration and testing
• Support radio and subsystem integration, test, ATLO, and early operations
• Prepare and deliver presentations to technical and management review boards
• Provide input to programmatic and technical standards, practices, procedures, processes, and policies
• Support or lead flight FPGA implementation, simulation, hardware test, and test data analysis
• Develop and maintain comprehensive FPGA documentation, including FPGA development and assurance plan, FPGA configuration management plan, FPGA specification, FPGA requirements, and FPGA test plans and test procedures
• Support or lead flight FPGA design and delivery reviews
• Generate FPGA End Item Data Package (EIDP) and prepare FPGA flight releases

Qualifications:

BA/BS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 9 years of related work experience, MA/MS degree in a related discipline with a minimum of 7 years of related work experience, PhD in a related discipline with a minimum of 5 years of rela