Senior Fpga Engineer Ii

Rocket Lab

Chantilly, VA, United States
On-site
Fpga firmware design
Vhdl
Hardware design team collaboration
Support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) by designing FPGAs for spacecraft payloads

Job Summary

  • Support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) by designing FPGAs for spacecraft payloads.
  • Work with the hardware design team on requirements, complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing.
  • Provide subject-matter expertise regarding design and automated test development procedures to customers and production support team.

Matching Summary

Support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) by designing FPGAs for spacecraft payloads.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • FPGA firmware design
  • VHDL
  • hardware design team collaboration
  • debugging in the lab
  • synthesis and timing analysis

Nice-to-have

  • Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture
  • radiation environment experience
  • image processing algorithms
  • integrating existing IP
  • C, Python, or MATLAB familiarity
  • software interfaces (interrupts, DMA)
  • high-speed transceiver design
  • AXI interfaces
  • PCB design and schematic capture

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering or equivalent discipline
  • 8+ years of experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance

Work Rights

Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.

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