Sr. FPGA Engineer
Xona· Engineering
Burlingame, California$160k - $210kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior FPGA Engineer to lead the architectural specification and design of next-generation LEO PNT satellite systems, owning the FPGA signal-processing pipeline from concept through flight-ready hardware with cross-functional collaboration across HW/SW, RF, and navigation teams.
Responsibilities
- FPGA Architecture Ownership: Define and specify hardware architecture for high-dynamic acquisition, tracking, data decoding, and measurement processing pipelines.
- DSP/FPGA Implementation: Lead fixed-point design, resource budgeting, and pipeline optimization to achieve performance and latency targets.
- Technical Leadership: Establish RTL best practices and guide junior engineers through complex design cycles and hardware validation phases.
- Cross-Functional Integration & HW/SW Partitioning: Define and optimize HW/SW partitioning in collaboration with SW teams; ensure efficient SW interfaces, seamless integration, robust system-level testing, and preservation of performance margins.
- Performance & Risk Management: Drive timing closure, power optimization, and system-level performance verification; resolve complex cross-domain issues.
- Vendor & IP Integration: Evaluate and integrate third-party IP cores, define acceptance criteria and compliance testing.
- Verification Strategy: Establish robust verification frameworks, including simulation, emulation, and hardware validation.
Qualifications
- PhD or MS/BS in EE/CE or related field, 7+ years of FPGA and DSP implementation experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex FPGA signal-processing systems from architecture to hardware validation.
- Deep expertise in fixed-point DSP implementation, pipelining, and resource optimization.
- Strong experience with high-speed interfaces and complex FPGA subsystems.
- Expert proficiency with FPGA toolchains, static timing analysis, and on-chip debugging.
Skills
Required:FPGA design and DSP implementationFixed-point DSPHigh-speed interfaces
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Xona
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Xona is the navigation infrastructure company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
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