Senior FPGA RF DSP Engineer (Hybrid)

Muon Space; United States; Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid work (on-site 3 days/week)

Job summary

Muon Space in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer with RF DSP expertise to join our High Performance Compute team. You will implement HDL for DSP on FPGAs and optimize these algorithms for real-time RF applications while collaborating with RF hardware engineers and software teams.

Hybrid role requiring on-site work three days per week; the position offers equity, comprehensive benefits, and a chance to impact Earth observation technologies from a Silicon Valley base.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years FPGA development for RF DSP and translating prototypes into FPGA implementations.
• Expert HDL (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL) and FPGA design flows.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize DSP algorithms on FPGAs for real-time execution; support prototyping in Python and porting to ARM SoCs.
• Design, simulate, and implement DSP algorithms for RF applications (Communications, ESM, Radar, etc.).
• Collaborate with RF hardware engineers on instrument bring-up, calibration routines, and system integration; work with software teams.
• Author technical documentation, design specifications, and test reports.

Skills

FPGA development

RF DSP techniques

HDL (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL)

Python prototyping

C/C++ or Rust for embedded

Team collaboration

Security clearance

Education

BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Verilog

SystemVerilog

VHDL

Xilinx RFSoC/MPSoC

GDB/JTAG debugging

CI/CD pipelines for embedded firmware

Job description

Muon Space in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer with RF DSP expertise to join our High Performance Compute team. You will implement HDL for DSP on FPGAs and optimize these algorithms for real-time RF applications while collaborating with RF hardware engineers and software teams.

Hybrid role requiring on-site work three days per week; the position offers equity, comprehensive benefits, and a chance to impact Earth observation technologies from a Silicon Valley base.