Senior Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer (Pre-Silicon)

Blue Origin; Central (TX); On-site; USD 230,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401(k) match

Education support

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking senior engineers to shape the pre-silicon emulation and prototyping platforms for the TeraWave program. You will own hardware platforms end-to-end, from emulation to FPGA prototyping, and collaborate with RF, antenna, and DSP teams to deliver scalable test infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building nightly images, conducting trade studies, and defining flows with modern tooling. This is a hands-on leadership role welcoming experience in space-based or wireless

Qualifications

• BS+10, MS+8, or PhD+6 years in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA implementation tools and flows and with commercial emulation platforms.
• Strong RTL skills in SystemVerilog/Verilog, including reading, modifying, and debugging production RTL.
• Experience defining and deploying FPGA prototyping or emulation flows, including build automation and release management.
• Experience bringing up large digital designs on FPGA or emulation platforms.
• Proficiency in Tcl, Python, or similar scripting for build automation, flow development, and CI integration.
• Experience with lab and board-level bring-up and debug, including lab instrumentation.
• Ability to work effectively across cross-site, multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and build Blue Origin's pre-silicon emulation and prototyping capability from the ground up.
• Develop platform strategy, flows, and infrastructure, and lead tradeoff studies covering capacity, build turnaround, debug visibility, and cost.
• Evaluate and recommend platform choices, including commercial emulation and prototyping systems and off-the-shelf boards.
• Own the end-to-end build flow: partitioning, synthesis, constraints, implementation, and timing closure for large SoC and subsystem designs across single- and multi-FPGA targets.
• Adapt designs for the platform, including clock/reset restructuring and memory model substitution.
• Define rate-reduction strategy for DSP and beamforming prototyping and establish fidelity criteria for scaled slices.
• Build hardware-in-the-loop platforms connecting DSP and beamforming datapaths to real converters, RF front ends, and lab instrumentation.
• Establish and operate a nightly build service with versioning, release notes, and rollback.
• Develop transactors, speed bridges, and test harnesses to connect designs to models and real-world interfaces.
• Manage platform capacity and forecast future needs against milestones.
• Debug at platform level and triage failures with design and verification teams.
• Partner with RF, antenna, and DSP teams on lab integration and end-to-end signal validation.
• Produce and maintain user documentation and onboarding material.

Skills

FPGA tools

SystemVerilog

RTL

FPGA prototyping

Python

Tcl

Lab bring-up

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

Palladium

Veloce

ZeBu

Protium

HAPS

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking senior engineers to shape the pre-silicon emulation and prototyping platforms for the TeraWave program. You will own hardware platforms end-to-end, from emulation to FPGA prototyping, and collaborate with RF, antenna, and DSP teams to deliver scalable test infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building nightly images, conducting trade studies, and defining flows with modern tooling. This is a hands-on leadership role welcoming experience in space-based or wireless