Lead FPGA Engineer

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Reference No.
27889
Salary
$169K-$190K+ per year, commensurate with experience.

Description

Build your future advancing planetary exploration with mission-critical avionics engineering in Hawthorne, California, where your work directly supports reliable rover systems. In this Lead FPGA Engineer opportunity, you’ll help define and deliver FPGA RTL architectures and verification that power digital computing across rover platforms.

Qualifications and responsibilities for this Lead FPGA Engineer position include:

  • 10+ years of experience in FPGA RTL architecture, development, verification, deployment, and maintenance; 2+ years managing direct reports.
  • Own and define vehicle system FPGA-related architectures, standards, practices, processes, and tools.
  • Develop system digital computing architectures and requirements, including HW/SW interface definition between fabric logic and processing subsystems.
  • Lead the FPGA Engineering team of 3+ people in the development and delivery of FPGA RTL design and verification.
  • Own unit-level RTL development from blank sheet to flight for Microsemi, Xilinx, or other FPGA/SoC devices using Verilog or VHDL.
  • Perform design verification including simulations, test benches, timing analysis, and hardware testing.
  • Lead design reviews, demonstrate requirement traceability, and create documentation for FPGA operation and interfacing.
  • Lead and participate in test campaigns spanning unit manual tests, unit automated tests, and system-level tests.

Salary: $169K-$190K+ per year, commensurate with experience.

Benefits: This full-time, permanent, direct-hire position offers great benefits including equity ownership, comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, parental leave, home office setup reimbursement, weekly lunch stipend, complimentary snacks and beverages, and monthly onsite social events.

DAVRON is the leading Headhunter and Executive Search firm for Engineering, Architecture, Construction and Manufacturing professionals nationwide. Our recruiters have direct communication with hiring managers allowing us to get you in front of company decision makers. You also receive one-on-one interview preparation and insider coaching from staffing experts to help you every step of the way. We want to see you thrive in challenging work environments that bring you excitement and prosperity in your career!

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Are you ready to take the next step in your career and thrive in a challenging work environment? If so, apply today and let's see where this opportunity can take you!

LEAD FPGA ENGINEER | FPGA RTL | VERILOG | VHDL | SIMULATIONS | VERIFICATION | TIMING ANALYSIS | MICROSEMI | XILINX | AXI | DDR4 | BUS INTERFACES

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