Senior FPGA Engineer for Spacecraft Systems

Mundi; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary range transparency

Comprehensive benefits

Equity opportunity

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a software engineer to help develop and verify FPGA firmware for the largest spacecraft ever flown. You will write mission-critical code to control propulsion, attitude, RF and power systems, ensuring safe operation across missions.

In the first year you will implement larger FPGA systems, validate with software and hardware-in-the-loop simulators, and drive robustness across multiple spacecraft.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 3+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years with complex FPGA designs across digital, mixed signal or RF.
• Experience with VHDL or SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and implementation of critical programmable logic across spacecraft.
• Implement architectures in RTL using VHDL and SystemVerilog.
• Verify FPGA designs via simulation, bench-testing and Hardware In The Loop.
• Support integration, test and debugging for FPGA designs across development.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

SystemVerilog

C/C++

HDL programming

Rust

Python

Signal processing basics

DSP fundamentals

AXI/AXI-Stream

PCIe

JESD204C

Xilinx SoC

Linux systems programming

CI/CD

RTOS

Electronics basics

Software verification

Performance debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a STEM discipline

3+ years of professional experience in software development

Tools

Xilinx SoC

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a software engineer to help develop and verify FPGA firmware for the largest spacecraft ever flown. You will write mission-critical code to control propulsion, attitude, RF and power systems, ensuring safe operation across missions.

In the first year you will implement larger FPGA systems, validate with software and hardware-in-the-loop simulators, and drive robustness across multiple spacecraft.