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Firmware Engineer

Location: Southern California – Hybrid / Remote considered
Salary: $145,000–$175,000
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.