Senior Avionics FPGA Engineer for High-Rel Aerospace

Industrious Ventures; Longmont (CO); On-site; USD 118,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental and adoptive leave

Medical, dental and vision insurance

HSA/FSA accounts

Disability and life insurance

Retirement 401k with company match

Equity grants

Job summary

Ursa Major is hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and qualify mission-critical avionics hardware for advanced missile and defense systems. You will lead hardware development from requirements to production, focusing on harsh-environment electronics and robust interfaces.

The role requires strong experience with mixed-signal boards, FPGA/processor integration, and high-speed digital interfaces, plus EMI/EMC and space/defense standards familiarity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience designing electronic hardware for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications.
• Experience designing complex mixed-signal printed circuit board assemblies.
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and PCB layout principles.
• Experience designing high-speed digital interfaces and communication buses such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, RS-422/485, or similar.
• Experience integrating processor-based, FPGA-based, or embedded electronic systems.
• Familiarity with power conversion, power distribution, and power management circuits.
• Experience performing component derating, worst-case circuit analysis, and reliability analyses.
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC design techniques and qualification standards (MIL-STD-461, DO-160, or similar).
• Experience supporting hardware integration, verification, qualification, and environmental testing.

Responsibilities

• Design mixed-signal avionics hardware and guide products through the full development lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture, detailed design, integration, verification, qualification, and production release.
• Develop high-reliability electronic assemblies including processor- and FPGA-based circuit cards, power conditioning and distribution circuits, communication interfaces, and supporting analog circuitry.
• Support system architecture development, hardware trade studies, component selection, and performance analysis.
• Develop interfaces between electronic hardware, FPGA designs, embedded software, and automated test systems.
• Perform circuit analysis, component derating, worst-case analysis, reliability assessments, and FMECA to ensure robust operation in demanding environments.
• Support schematic capture, PCB layout reviews, design for manufacturability (DFM), design for testability (DFT), and production transition activities.
• Develop and execute hardware integration, verification, qualification, and environmental test plans.
• Investigate hardware failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate closely with FPGA, embedded software, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and test engineering teams throughout product development.
• Support technical reviews, customer design reviews, and proposal activities as required.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, design standards, and development methodologies.

Skills

Mixed-signal design

High-reliability electronics

Analog and digital design

Signal integrity

Power integrity

PCB layout

High-speed interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART,

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

KiCad

Cadence Allegro

Mentor Xpedition

Job description

Ursa Major is hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and qualify mission-critical avionics hardware for advanced missile and defense systems. You will lead hardware development from requirements to production, focusing on harsh-environment electronics and robust interfaces.

The role requires strong experience with mixed-signal boards, FPGA/processor integration, and high-speed digital interfaces, plus EMI/EMC and space/defense standards familiarity.