Avionics FPGA Engineer, Lodestar

• BEng / MEng in Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog and/or Verilog, with a solid grasp of RTL design principles
• Hands-on experience with at least one FPGA family or ecosystem
• Familiarity with common digital interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART)
• Experience with simulation and formal verification
• Experience dealing with clock domain crossings, static timing analysis and timing closure
• Comfort scripting for automation, ideally in Python and/or TCL
• Hands on experience with lab test equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and power supplies
• Clear communication and a proactive, curious approach to picking up new tools and ideas
• You may be ineligible for this role if you do not hold citizenship of one of the following countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, or United States, or if you hold ineligible dual citizenship or nationality

Desirable

• We are seeking a highly motivated Avionics FPGA Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team developing next-generation space systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and validating advanced avionics architectures for autonomous platforms
• This role offers the opportunity to work hands-on across the full lifecycle, from concept and simulation to hardware testing and on-orbit readiness
• Design, develop, and verify RTL in SystemVerilog and/or Verilog for FPGA and SoC targets
• Bring up and integrate SerDes interfaces and memory interfaces
• Develop testbenches and formal proofs to ensure module and system level correctness
• Conduct hardware debugging and system level testing using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and other lab instrumentation
• Collaborate closely with systems, avionics software and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration of RTL designs into flight systems
• Contribute to design documentation, test plans, and the evidence needed for design reviews, and support environmental qualification and verification testing (EMC, vibration, thermal vacuum, etc.)