Senior FPGA Engineer - Space Avionics & High-Speed IO

Impulsespace; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

Vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to design, implement, verify, and integrate high-performance digital logic for space vehicle systems. You will work on HDL development with VHDL/Verilog, AXI4/AXI-Stream interfaces, and clocking architectures, coordinating with DSP and software teams to deliver robust hardware solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in optical communications, hands-on lab experience, and proficiency with Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in the optical communications field.
• Expertise in HDL development using VHDL or Verilog.
• Experience with high-speed digital design, timing closure, and parallel data path architectures.
• Familiarity with AXI4/AXI-Stream interface standards.
• Proficiency with Xilinx (Vivado) and Intel/Altera (Quartus) FPGA toolchains.
• Experience with FPGA clocking resources (PLL, MMCM) and multi-clock domain integration.
• Strong understanding of digital logic, state machines, pipelining, and data-path design.
• Ability to create and maintain self-checking testbenches for module- and system-level verification.
• Hands-on experience with lab debugging and FPGA hardware bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and optimize FPGA designs using VHDL or Verilog.
• Perform high-speed digital integration, including multi-clock domain interfaces, timing closure, and advanced clock-constraint management.
• Architect FPGA data paths with an emphasis on throughput, parallelism, and resource efficiency.
• Implement and integrate AXI4/AXI-Stream interfaces and related on-chip bus architectures.
• Design and manage FPGA clocking using PLL and MMCM primitives.
• Use Xilinx and Intel/Altera FPGA tools for synthesis, place-and-route, constraint definition, and timing analysis.
• Build self-checking testbenches for functional verification and regression coverage.
• Debug FPGA designs in the lab using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and FPGA debug tools such as Chipscope or SignalTap.
• Collaborate with DSP, systems, and software teams to define hardware architectures and support algorithm implementation.

Skills

HDL development (VHDL/Verilog)

AXI4/AXI-Stream

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

Multi-clock domain design

High-speed digital design

Lab debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Optical Engineering or related

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Intel/Altera Quartus

Job description

Impulse Space in Redondo Beach seeks a Senior FPGA Engineer to design, implement, verify, and integrate high-performance digital logic for space vehicle systems. You will work on HDL development with VHDL/Verilog, AXI4/AXI-Stream interfaces, and clocking architectures, coordinating with DSP and software teams to deliver robust hardware solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in optical communications, hands-on lab experience, and proficiency with Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus tools.