Senior FPGA Engineer II

Rocket Lab Corporation • Albuquerque, NM

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) challenges for Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. Building on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation from Geost, Optical Systems delivers solutions to the warfighter for responsive, scalable sensing solutions across all orbital domains.

You will be a Senior FPGA Engineer II based at our Rocket Lab Optical Systems worksites in Long Beach, CA; Littleton, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Albuquerque, NM; Chantilly, VA; and Tucson, AZ. You will design Xilinx FPGAs in VHDL to support Tranche 3 of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering or equivalent discipline with 8+ years of experience
• Experience in FPGA firmware design with VHDL.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an U.S. Government Security Clearance

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture
• Experience with FPGAs and embedded systems in a radiation environment, including SEU/SEL impact and mitigation.
• Experience in FPGA- or ASIC-based image processing algorithms.
• Experience in both creating IP from scratch in RTL and integrating existing IP into RTL and block designs.
• Familiarity with C, Python or MATLAB and/or experience translating algorithms from a scripted language to HDL.
• Experience with software interfaces including interrupts and DMA.
• Experience with DDR4, Aurora, and high-speed transceiver design and verification.
• Familiarity with AXI Stream and AXI Memory Mapped interfaces.
• PCB design and schematic capture and layout with tools such as Altium Designer.

Responsibilities

• Work with the hardware design team on requirements.
• Complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing.
• Support hardware and software development teams in bring-up and test of products.
• Provide subject-matter expertise regarding design and automated test development procedures to customers and production support team.
• Perform research and analysis of data, such as customer proposed specifications, datasheets, or manuals to determine design approach and/or feasibility.
• Execute debugging of the design in the lab.
• Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees