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Senior FPGA Engineer

Impulse· Avionics
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Redondo Beach$145k - $200kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Highly skilled FPGA Engineer to design, implement, verify, and integrate high-performance digital logic for advanced communication and processing systems as part of Impulse’s space vehicles.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, and optimize FPGA designs using VHDL or Verilog
  • Perform high-speed digital integration, including multi-clock domain interfaces, timing closure, and advanced clock-constraint management
  • Architect FPGA data paths with an emphasis on throughput, parallelism, and resource efficiency
  • Implement and integrate AXI4/AXI-Stream interfaces and related on-chip bus architectures
  • Design and manage FPGA clocking using PLL and MMCM primitives
  • Use Xilinx and Intel/Altera FPGA tools for synthesis, place-and-route, constraint definition, and timing analysis
  • Build self-checking testbenches for functional verification and regression coverage
  • Debug FPGA designs in the lab using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and FPGA debug tools such as Chipscope or SignalTap
  • Collaborate with DSP, systems, and software teams to define hardware architectures and support algorithm implementation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in the optical communications field
  • Expertise in HDL development using VHDL or Verilog
  • Experience with high-speed digital design, timing closure, and parallel data path architectures
  • Familiarity with AXI4/AXI-Stream interface standards
  • Proficiency with Xilinx (Vivado) and Intel/Altera (Quartus) FPGA toolchains
  • Experience with FPGA clocking resources (PLL, MMCM) and multi-clock domain integration
  • Strong understanding of digital logic, state machines, pipelining, and data-path design
  • Ability to create and maintain self-checking testbenches for module-level and system-level verification
  • Hands-on experience with lab debugging and FPGA hardware bring-up

Skills

Required:VHDLVerilogAXI4/AXI-StreamXilinx VivadoIntel/Altera QuartusPLL/MMCM clockingLab debugging

Benefits

  • long-term incentives in the form of stock options
  • medical, vision & dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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