Senior DSP/FPGA Engineer

Description

Welcome to SSC Space (formerly Swedish Space Corporation), the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular.

With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, space consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, flight test services, satellite propulsion systems, and much more.

SSC Space also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.

Are you fueled by a passion for people and the ambition to create an awesome workplace? Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey with us to help earth benefit from space?

If you answer yes to these questions, we invite you to seize the opportunity to make a significant impact as End-to-End Mission Performance Engineer. We are looking for a dedicated End-to-End Mission Performance Engineer who shares our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in the relevant field.
• Microelectronic design for Integrated Circuits (digital and mixed-signal, wiredand wireless), FPGA, IP Cores.
• Microelectronic development projects from conception through qualification to application.
• Microelectronics functional and performance verification, validation, qualification and acceptance.
• Microelectronic technology, design methods and tools from HW-SW co-design, architecture modelling/analysis, circuit (schematic/hardware description languages), (high-level) synthesis, place and route, layout to verification, validation testing and application deployment.
• Management, monitoring and supporting of industrial microelectronic activities.
• Microelectronic standards for commercial and space applications.
• A good knowledge of the English language. Other languages are an asset.
  
  

Legal and Security Requirements

• All applicants must be legally allowed to work in The Netherlands.
• Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. SSC Space Netherlands will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA.
• Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to SSC Space Netherlands a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident.
• Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration.
  
  

Responsibilities

Microelectronics technical competence:

• Microelectronic design for Integrated Circuits (digital and mixed-signal, wired and wireless), FPGA, IP Cores.
• Microelectronic development projects from conception through qualification to application.
• Microelectronics functional and performance verification, validation, qualification and acceptance.
• Microelectronic technology, design methods and tools from HW-SW co-design, architecture modelling/analysis, circuit (schematic/hardware description languages), (high-level) synthesis, place and route, layout to verification,
• validation testing and application deployment.
• Management, monitoring and supporting of industrial microelectronic activities.
• Microelectronic standards for commercial and space application.
• Implementation of digital signal processing algorithms in FPGAs (i.e. understanding of filtering, FFT, sampling theory, etc.), accelerators, digital signal processors, microprocessors and/or ASICs.
• FPGA, RF-SoC and/or ASIC design, simulation, verification, debugging, synthesis, layout and tools.
• Design methodology and tools for reusable IP cores.
• Integrated circuit functional, electrical, and environmental testing.
  
  

Experience in two or more specific competences is considered to be advantageous:

• Implementation of algorithms for base band communication (demodulation, modulation, coding, decoding, error correction in general and satellite communication and/or 3GPP specifically), GNSS, SAR and/or image/video signal processing.
• System level modelling with Matlab, SystemC and/or SystemVerilog.
• Communication base band, GNSS, Artificial Intelligence and/or image/video processor architectures.
  
  

Expertise in the following topics will be considered as beneficial:

• RISC-V, SPARC and ARM processor instruction set architectures (ISA) and their extensions.
• Spacewire, Spacefibre, Ethernet, PCIe, JESD204, CAN and MIL-STD-1553 interfaces.
• Hardware Software Co-design.
• High-Level Synthesis and Auto-coding.
• Hardware Description Language coding rules and linting tools.
• Programming in C, C++ and Python.
  
  

Benefits

• The selected candidate will receive good remuneration in line with ESA Job Class.
• Will be registered for both social security and tax in the Netherlands.
• The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday.
• Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included.
• SSC Space Netherlands assist with relocation both with support and financially.
• SSC Space Netherlands contributes 15,4% of pensionable salary to a company pension scheme and employees can optionally make additional contributions.
  
  

To be considered for this Position

Prior to 2026-03-19 , please apply via our Job Application form.

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