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$175,000 – $240,000
Listed on Astranis’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Astranis is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to design and verify RTL for high-performance systems in their satellites and ground stations, working across spacecraft communications, avionics, and defense applications. This role suits experienced hardware engineers comfortable with complex, mission-critical systems who thrive collaborating across DSP, firmware, and software teams in a fast-paced aerospace environment.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience
- High throughput FPGA system design, implementation, and testing
- Verilog/SystemVerilog proficiency for synthesis and verification
- RTL test bench and verification experience at module and system level
- C/C++ bit-accurate modeling of RTL
- System-level understanding of power, thermal, and area trade-offs
- U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or refugee/asylee status
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in computer engineering or equivalent
- Expertise in DSP/radio design, software, encryption, or FEC encoding/decoding
- Xilinx Ultrascale, Ultrascale+, or Versal FPGA experience
- Vivado IDE and TCL experience
- High-speed data converter experience (ADCs, DACs, JESD204)
- UVM and DPI simulation methodologies
- Circuit-level debugging experience
- Digital communication theory (DVB-S2X, modulation/demodulation, LDPC, Turbo, Reed-Solomon, channelization, FIR/IIR, I/Q signaling)
- Space-based systems and radiation-tolerant design experience (TMR, ECC)