Senior FPGA Architect – Space Avionics & RTL Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; United States; On-site; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid comprehensive medical,(d)

Job summary

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Principal FPGA Design Engineer to join our team. Reporting to the Embedded Software & FPGA Manager, this role leads FPGA RTL design from concept through qualification, integration, and flight operations, collaborating across avionics, hardware, and software to deliver high-reliability digital logic.

Candidates should have 12+ years of FPGA experience, SystemVerilog/VHDL expertise, and a background with PolarFire, Zynq Versal, and Versal devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Requires 12+ years FPGA RTL architecture, development, and verification.
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own FPGA RTL development from architecture definition through verification, integration and flight readiness.
• Define FPGA architecture and requirements in collaboration with systems, hardware and embedded software teams.
• Develop RTL in SystemVerilog or VHDL for Microchip PolarFire and AMD Zynq Versal.
• Perform comprehensive verification, including simulation, test benches, timing closure, resource analysis and hardware validation.
• Lead design reviews, ensure requirement traceability, and produce documentation for FPGA operation and integration.
• Define and execute verification and validation testing (DVT) and support board bring-up.
• Support system bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting during avionics and flight test activities.
• Lead cross-functional technical discussions, drive architecture decisions and mentor more junior engineers.

Skills

FPGA RTL architecture

SystemVerilog/VHDL

Verification & testing

Leadership & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Linux C/C++ development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Vivado

Mentor ModelSim/QuestaSim

AXI/PCIe/DDR4/DDR5 interfaces

Git

Python scripting

Job description

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Principal FPGA Design Engineer to join our team. Reporting to the Embedded Software & FPGA Manager, this role leads FPGA RTL design from concept through qualification, integration, and flight operations, collaborating across avionics, hardware, and software to deliver high-reliability digital logic.

Candidates should have 12+ years of FPGA experience, SystemVerilog/VHDL expertise, and a background with PolarFire, Zynq Versal, and Versal devices.