Space RF FPGA Engineer – Radar & Communications

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin’s Lunar RF Systems group seeks an FPGA Design Engineer to own digital design from concept to flight. You will translate DSP and RF requirements into synthesizable RTL on FPGAs and SOCs, modeling waveforms in MATLAB/Simulink and validating implementations with hardware teams.

You will optimize DSP architectures, assess hardware resources, and collaborate across RF, antenna, DSP, and embedded software teams to enable lunar mission capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• 3+ years of FPGA design or DSP experience.
• Experience implementing DSP algorithms on FPGA or embedded processors.
• Ability to simulate end-to-end systems to meet performance specs.
• Proficiency with Matlab/Simulink or equivalent modeling tools.
• Experience selecting and optimizing DSP algorithms for radar or sensor use.

Responsibilities

• Design and simulate end-to-end systems to meet performance specs.
• Develop and validate DSP algorithms for radar or sensing applications.
• Support Matlab/Simulink code generation for signal processing and filtering.
• Analyze computational complexity and hardware resource needs.
• Optimize FPGA-based DSP architectures to improve SNR and performance.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to select devices (FPGA, ADC/DAC, memory).
• Assist with hardware bring-up and test; RTL implementation and prototyping.
• Conduct hardware-in-the-loop and RF testing; participate in reviews.

Skills

FPGA design

DSP algorithms

MATLAB/Simulink

RTL design

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

Synopsys Synplify Pro

ModelSim/QuestaSim

UVM/OVM

Job description

Blue Origin’s Lunar RF Systems group seeks an FPGA Design Engineer to own digital design from concept to flight. You will translate DSP and RF requirements into synthesizable RTL on FPGAs and SOCs, modeling waveforms in MATLAB/Simulink and validating implementations with hardware teams.

You will optimize DSP architectures, assess hardware resources, and collaborate across RF, antenna, DSP, and embedded software teams to enable lunar mission capabilities.