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# Senior FPGA Engineer in Long Beach

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Long Beach, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $148,000.0 - $222,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Data Analysis, Configuration Management, Compilers, Code Coverage, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Digital Electronics, Digital Technology, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), GNU Linker, Hardware Description Language, Reduced Instruction Set Computing, Simulink, Software Engineering, Static Timing Analysis, SystemC, SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Fpga Hardware
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-fpga-engineer-long-beach-31618079

## About the Role

* Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
 * 5+ years of experience in FPGA development and high-speed digital systems in mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics
 * Technical expertise in FPGA development across the full-lifecycle from RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, and bring up/validation
 * Familiarity with one or more Hardware Description (HDLs) including VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
 * Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis
 * Experience working with highly cross-functional teams (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, etc.) to develop integrated electronics solutions
 * Familiarity with a wide variety of FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms across industry leaders like AMD Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, etc.

Nice to haves but not required:

 * Strong experience in DSP concepts in RF applications such as forward error correction, channel estimation, front end theory, and modulation schemes
 * Familiarity with one or more code or High Level Synthesis (HLS) including SpinalHDL, Chisel, Vitis, SystemC, or Simulink
 * Familiarity with RISC-V development toolchain (e.g. linker scripts, compilers)
 * Familiarity with rigorous software development processes including version and configuration control, change traceability, code coverage analysis, CI/CD build pipelines, etc.

## Description

As an FPGA engineer on the digital electronics team, you will analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee development for FPGAs across multiple products through the entire product lifecycle from concept to flight maturity to include initial design, board bring-up, design verification, qualification, initial flight production, integration, and vehicle operations. You will work with cross-functional partner teams across the company to help the team make the best possible decisions for the overall vehicle. A strong candidate for the role will have a deep technical background in electronics design and sound project management skills to ensure the hardware project is both reliable and on-schedule to support Terran R's launch!


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