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Xona Space Systems

FPGA Engineer

📌Akuhaito, United States 🇺🇸

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⏱︎ full-time

🧙‍♂️ mid-level

on-site

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.

We are seeking a mid-level FPGA Engineer to join our team working on high-reliability digital systems for space-based navigation payloads. In this role, you’ll contribute to the design, implementation, and testing of FPGA logic for real-time, mission-critical applications. You’ll work closely with hardware and systems teams to help bring our next-generation payloads from concept to flight.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop, implement, and verify RTL designs for Xilinx FPGAs (e.g., RFSoC, Zynq Ultrascale+)
  • Build and maintain digital processing pipelines, control logic, and data interfaces
  • Support hardware bring-up and system integration on custom satellite payloads
  • Design for fault tolerance and space reliability, including SEU mitigation and system monitoring
  • Collaborate with systems, hardware, and software engineers to define and validate FPGA requirements
  • Participate in lab testing, simulation, and design reviews
  • Document designs, test plans, and development processes in a structured, reviewable format

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working with Xilinx Zynq or RFSoC devices
  • Exposure to space system development, including SEU mitigation techniques and fault-tolerant design
  • Familiarity with high-speed interfaces, memory controllers, or custom peripheral integration
  • Scripting experience (e.g., Python or TCL) for automating test and build processes
  • Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary hardware/software projects
  • Understanding of space qualification and hardware validation processes is a plus

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 3–5 years of professional FPGA design experience using Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog
  • Strong experience with FPGA development flows, including Vivado or similar tools
  • Proficiency in simulation, verification, and hardware debugging techniques
  • Familiarity with on-chip interfaces such as AXI, AXI-Stream, and clock domain crossing
  • Hands-on experience bringing up FPGA designs in a lab environment
  • Comfortable working in a Linux development environment with version control tools like Git
  • Must be able to work full-time onsite in Burlingame, California

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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