Lead FPGA Design Engineer – Spacecraft Avionics

Intuitive Machines • San Jose, CA

22d • $123,000 - $251,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Lanteris Space Systems is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer to join its Bus Electronics Design team, focused on avionics hardware development. This hands-on, on-site role is based in San Jose, California. The Bus Electronics team designs, verifies, and supports manufacturing of the avionics, power, and analog electronics used in spacecraft ranging from pLEO to deep space, serving national defense, Earth observation and communications, and interplanetary exploration missions.

The role leads FPGA design for next-generation avionics systems, including high-speed communications, payload processing, data handling, memory blocks, and sensor interfaces. The engineer owns reliable digital designs through the full lifecycle, from concept and design implementation through qualification, production, satellite integration, and flight. The position involves close collaboration with hardware, software, and other cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of FPGA design experience.
• Proficiency in designing, implementing, and simulating RTL in SystemVerilog and/or VHDL.
• Proficiency configuring hard and soft IP, writing custom IP, and integrating third-party IP.
• Experience with FPGA synthesis, place-and-route, multi-clock architectures, and timing closure.
• Experience with fault tolerance and single-event-effects mitigation strategies such as TMR, ECC, and scrubbing.
• Experience working with hardware and software design teams and selecting suitable FPGA/SoCs for current and future roadmap requirements.

Nice To Haves

• 15 or more years of FPGA design experience.
• Experience with multiple FPGA vendors or families, such as AMD Xilinx Versal and Microchip RTAX/RTG4.
• Experience with prototype bring-up, test benches, and validation.
• Experience designing FPGAs for avionics systems in space, defense, or other high-reliability systems.
• Experience with SerDes, SpaceWire, Ethernet, LVDS, and RS-422/485.
• Experience with FPGA configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and recommendations for system trades, requirements capture, part selection, and design decisions and their implications.
• Own FPGA development through design, production, satellite integration, and on-orbit performance.
• Develop high-performance, reliable FPGA designs, including fault tolerance, timing closure, and high-speed communications.
• Support design bring-up with hardware and software teams.
• Document engineering test and qualification plans; execute hardware validation through benchtop and environmental testing; troubleshoot and investigate root causes of anomalous behaviors.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including digital, software, power, and PCB layout, to drive project success.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Health and welfare insurance.
• 401(k).
• Incentive eligibility, with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior