Senior Firmware Engineer

HYBRID OR REMOTE CONSIDERED

Location: Southern California / Hybrid or Remote considered
Salary: $145,000 – $175,000 base
Industry: Space & Defense

We're working with a fast-growing, well-funded space technology company expanding its US engineering team and developing next-generation radar satellite systems.

They're looking for an experienced Firmware/FPGA Engineer to take significant ownership of the FPGA architecture behind advanced SAR and radar payloads.

The Role
You'll work across FPGA, DSP, RF and embedded systems, helping evolve existing flight-proven firmware into a more modular, reusable architecture for future products.

You'll be responsible for:
FPGA/RTL development using VHDL/Verilog
High-performance signal processing in FPGA fabric
Radar signal generation, beamforming and processing pipelines
Xilinx RFSoC / UltraScale+ / Zynq development
PS–PL integration with ARM-based systems
High-speed interfaces and RF/ADC/DAC integration
Timing closure, verification and hardware bring-up
Helping define FPGA architecture, tooling and processes as the team grows

What We're Looking For
5+ years FPGA development experience
Strong Xilinx + Vivado + VHDL/Verilog
Hands-on FPGA DSP experience – FFT, filtering, DDC/DUC, waveform generation, fixed-point processing etc.
Experience with Zynq/SoC architectures
Strong understanding of high-speed interfaces and electrical schematics
Radar, SAR, EW, SDR or other high-performance signal-processing experience highly desirable
RFSoC experience is a major plus
Space/aerospace/defense experience preferred

This is a high-ownership role where you'll help shape the FPGA architecture for current and future spaceborne radar products, rather than simply maintain an established design.
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