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ASIC Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX· Silicon Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$135k - $210kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

ASIC Design Engineer role for Starlink hardware development, focusing on designing and validating ASICs/FPGA blocks for space and ground infrastructure, collaborating across systems, firmware, architecture, and software teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design ASICs and/or FPGAs for Starlink projects, implementing complex SoC blocks and SoC integration tasks using Verilog/System Verilog
  • Optimize designs for power, performance and area
  • Participate in the full ASIC/FPGA design lifecycle for Starlink projects, from high-level conceptual and architectural discussions through microarchitecture, design partitioning, and collaboration with backend/implementation teams, and assist in lab bring-up and validation
  • Contribute to continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
  • Engage in high-level architectural design for test systems to support FPGA/ASIC validation, generational interoperability, and integration with DSP/communications subsystems for comprehensive lab and on-orbit verification
  • Collaborate with software engineers in developing production software for your designs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics
  • 1+ years of experience in RTL Design using SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL

Skills

Required:RTL Design (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL)
Nice to have:ASIC/FPGA system integrationPython, C/C++, BashDSP / digital communication datapath / modem designEDA tools (HDL simulators, lint, FPGA tools)APIs/protocols (AXI/AHB/APB)Troubleshooting PCBs with Microprocessors/FPGAs

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives, stock or long-term cash awards
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounts and various other perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave as per policy
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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