Sr. FPGA Engineer II
About The Position
Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division develops mission-critical space-domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. The division draws on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation to provide sensing solutions for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. Based at an Optical Systems site in Long Beach, California, the Sr. FPGA Engineer II will support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture by designing FPGAs for advanced electro-optical and infrared technology. The role works with hardware design, hardware development, software development, customers, and production support teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or an equivalent discipline, with 8 or more years of experience.
- Experience in FPGA firmware design with VHDL.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a 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 single-event upset (SEU) and single-event latch-up (SEL) impacts and mitigation.
- Experience with FPGA- or ASIC-based image processing algorithms.
- Experience 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, schematic capture, and layout experience with tools such as Altium Designer.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Work with the hardware design team on requirements.
- Complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing.
- Support hardware and software development teams in product bring-up and testing.
- Provide subject-matter expertise on design and automated test development procedures to customers and the production support team.
- Research and analyze data, including customer-proposed specifications, datasheets, and manuals, to determine design approach and feasibility.
- Debug designs in the lab.
- Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis.
Benefits
- Company equity.
- Medical coverage, including HMO, PPO, and a 100% company-sponsored HSA plan option.
- Dental and vision coverage.
- Three weeks of paid vacation and five days of sick leave per year.
- Eleven paid holidays per year.
- Flexible spending and dependent care savings accounts.
- Paid parental leave.
- Disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Discounted employee stock purchase program.
- Subsidized EV charging stations.
- Onsite gym.
- Food and drinks.
- Other discounts.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
