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Overview
Senior Digital Design Engineer specializing in Critical Environments. We are a space technology company creating an entirely new market vertical. As a Senior Digital Design Engineer, you will be at the forefront of creating cutting-edge HDL-based digital designs for next-generation space radar systems. In this role, you will work closely with software and electrical engineering teams to innovate, manufacture, and rigorously test microwave subsystems.
Responsibilities
- Develop FPGA-based digital designs for radar, electronic warfare, and communications.
- Collaborate with electrical and systems engineers to integrate Xilinx SoC based hardware with high-speed data converters and associated microwave transmitter and receiver chains.
- Continuously work with the payload engineering team to address mechanical, thermal and power subsystems and interfaces.
- Rapidly develop prototypes and iteratively improve hardware and firmware.
- Prepare engineering documentation, reports, and test plans.
- Perform other professional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of proven, relevant experience in digital design with FPGA and SoC devices.
- Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Knowledge of foundational electrical engineering, computer architecture and digital design concepts.
- Development experience with Xilinx devices and design suite, such as Vivado, SDK and Vitis.
- Experience developing MCU and SoC software in Rust or C/C++.
- Familiarity with standard physical layers for digital communication (UART, SPI, LVDS).
Nice To Have
- Advanced degree
- Experience with high-speed data transfer and bandwidth management.
- Knowledge of digital communication systems and modulations (QPSK, 8-PSK).
- Experience with parallelizing DSP algorithms
- Experience with flight software, robotics, autonomous or fault critical systems
- Proficient in programming embedded ARM Cores supporting SoC architectures, working with Linux, RTOS or bare-metal environments.
- Knowledge of Python and SystemVerilog.
- TS/SCI security clearance
Job Details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
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