Space-Grade FPGA Design Engineer

Medium; Saratoga (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Space is building a cutting-edge LEO space system and seeks FPGA Design Engineers to develop, verify, and implement FPGA firmware for satellite avionics. You will work across multiple boards and subsystems, delivering reliable, radiation-tolerant FPGA designs for space environments.

Responsibilities include RTL design in SystemVerilog/VHDL, AXI protocol implementations, timing closure, CDC techniques, and fault-tolerant design through TMR/ECC/scrubbing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 5+ years of FPGA design experience in aerospace/high-reliability systems.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog and/or VHDL for RTL design.
• Experience with FPGA synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure.
• Knowledge of AXI or similar bus protocols and interface design.
• Experience with clock-domain crossing techniques and multi-clock architectures.
• Understanding of radiation effects and mitigation (TMR, ECC, scrubbing).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement RTL in SystemVerilog or VHDL for satellite avionics FPGAs across a variety of FPGA platforms.
• Develop AXI Memory-Mapped and AXI-Stream protocol implementations for inter-subsystem communication.
• Perform FPGA resource and size estimation including logic, memory, and DSP budgeting.
• Implement clock-domain-crossing (CDC) design techniques and verify timing closure across designs.
• Design clock/reset tree architectures and manage timing-closure strategies for complex multi-clock designs.
• Develop SPI, I²C, GPIO, and other low-speed peripheral interfaces alongside high-speed transceiver links.
• Apply fault-tolerant digital design techniques including TMR, ECC, scrubbing, and SEE mitigation.
• Perform synthesis and place-and-route using vendor toolchains, including custom placement constraints.
• Support board bring-up by developing configuration, interface verification, and debug test sequences.
• Collaborate with digital design, power, and PCB layout engineers to ensure FPGA support circuitry meets requirements.

Skills

FPGA design experience (aerospace/high

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

SystemVerilog/ VHDL toolchains

FPGA vendor toolchains

RTL simulation tools

Python/TCL scripting

Job description

E-Space is building a cutting-edge LEO space system and seeks FPGA Design Engineers to develop, verify, and implement FPGA firmware for satellite avionics. You will work across multiple boards and subsystems, delivering reliable, radiation-tolerant FPGA designs for space environments.

Responsibilities include RTL design in SystemVerilog/VHDL, AXI protocol implementations, timing closure, CDC techniques, and fault-tolerant design through TMR/ECC/scrubbing.