Senior Space-Grade FPGA Design & Verification Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 144,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Spacecraft Systems engineer to design and verify high‑reliability avionics hardware for spaceflight vehicles. You will define requirements, model architectures, and drive end‑to‑end design and verification of on‑vehicle systems.

The role emphasizes FPGA/SoC integration, RTL development, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure robust performance in mission‑critical environments.

Qualifications

• BS or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in digital design and SoC architecture.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog or Verilog for RTL implementation.
• Experience with SoC integration and interface design.
• Understanding of digital timing and synchronization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop digital hardware architectures for high reliability satellite avionics.
• Create and implement RTL code for critical SoC blocks and interfaces.
• Contribute to architecture optimization for performance, power, and cost trade-offs.
• Collaborate on design verification to ensure robust and reliable designs.
• Participate in advanced verification techniques: UVM, CRV, and/or SVA.
• Support prototype development for early validation.
• Document design specifications and decisions.
• Participate in design reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex digital design issues.
• Implement interfaces between digital hardware and firmware/software components.
• Research and evaluate new architectural approaches.

Skills

SystemVerilog/Verilog

SoC architecture

FPGA tool flow

FPGA design

RTL code

Digital timing

Scripting (Python)

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's/PhD preferred

Tools

Questasim

Xilinx/AMD Versal

Space-grade FPGAs

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Spacecraft Systems engineer to design and verify high‑reliability avionics hardware for spaceflight vehicles. You will define requirements, model architectures, and drive end‑to‑end design and verification of on‑vehicle systems.

The role emphasizes FPGA/SoC integration, RTL development, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure robust performance in mission‑critical environments.