Senior Software / FPGA Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software / FPGA Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership for complex software, firmware, and FPGA-enabled space systems.

This individual will serve as a technical bridge between higher-level system requirements and the engineers designing and implementing software and FPGA solutions. The engineer will support requirements definition, interface development, architecture, integration, qualification, verification, and testing.

This is a systems engineering position rather than a pure software development role, although candidates should possess sufficient software and FPGA knowledge to work effectively with development teams.

Key Responsibilities - Lead systems engineering activities supporting software and FPGA-based solutions - Translate system-level requirements into software and FPGA requirements - Develop, decompose, allocate, and manage software-related requirements - Define hardware/software and software/FPGA interface requirements - Support software and FPGA architecture development - Ensure traceability between system requirements and implementation-level requirements - Coordinate software, FPGA, hardware, systems, and test engineering organizations - Support software/FPGA integration and test - Develop system-level verification strategies for software and FPGA requirements - Support software qualification activities - Define verification methods and acceptance criteria - Identify and resolve software/system interface issues - Support system I&T and SEIT activities - Participate in technical reviews and design reviews, including development through CDR - Support integration of software and FPGA elements into larger space-system architectures - Evaluate technical risks related to software, FPGA, hardware/software interfaces, and system integration - Support mission-critical and high-reliability system development

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline
• Strong systems engineering experience involving software, firmware, FPGA, or embedded systems
• Experience developing software or FPGA requirements
• Experience with requirements decomposition and traceability
• Experience with software/FPGA integration and test
• Understanding of hardware/software interfaces Knowledge of software verification, validation, and qualification activities
• Experience working across software, electrical, hardware, systems, and test engineering teams
• Understanding of systems engineering processes through CDR
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Active TS/SCI clearance required to start
• Aerospace, defense, satellite, or spacecraft software experience
• Experience with mission-critical or embedded real-time systems
• Experience integrating FPGA-based solutions with software and hardware
• Experience with system-level I&T
• Software qualification experience
• MBSE experience
• Experience with highly autonomous space systems
• Space hardware experience
• Previous technical leadership experience