Senior FPGA Engineer II

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
• Perform research and analysis of data to determine design approach and feasibility
• Execute debugging of the design in the lab
• Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture
• Experience with FPGAs and embedded systems in a radiation environment
• Experience in FPGA- or ASIC-based image processing algorithms
• Experience creating IP from scratch in RTL and integrating existing IP
• Familiarity with C, Python, or MATLAB
• Experience with software interfaces including interrupts and DMA
• Experience with DDR4, Aurora, and high-speed transceiver design
• Familiarity with AXI Stream and AXI Memory Mapped interfaces
• PCB design and schematic capture experience with Altium Designer
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

About the Company

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more.