Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer

🕒 August 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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K2 Space Corporation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Defense • Logistics • Manufacturing

K2 Space Corporation is a California-based aerospace manufacturer that designs and produces large, high-power satellite buses intended to deliver significantly more power, mass and payload volume at lower cost than traditional large satellites. The company emphasizes production-line style builds and commercial supply chains to shorten lead times and reduce per-unit cost, enabling multi-manifest launches and multi-orbit missions across LEO, MEO, GEO and cislunar space. K2 serves commercial, scientific and government/defense customers, and focuses on enabling missions that require high throughput, high-power payloads.

📋 Description

• Develop FPGA-based prototypes to enable early ASIC integration, firmware development, and system validation. • Build hardware platforms that allow software and firmware teams to develop before first silicon. • Support first-silicon bring-up, debug, and functional validation. • Develop automated validation infrastructure for silicon characterization and regression testing. • Configure and validate digital interfaces including high-speed Ethernet SerDes, SPI, UART, GPIO, and other peripheral interfaces. • Develop FPGA-based traffic generators, protocol checkers, and test applications for interface validation. • Debug issues spanning RTL, firmware, software, FPGA prototypes, and silicon using simulation and laboratory instrumentation. • Collaborate closely with ASIC Design, Verification, Firmware, Software, Systems, and DFT teams to accelerate product development.

🎯 Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. • 5+ years of FPGA development experience using Verilog/SystemVerilog and AMD/Xilinx FPGA tools. • Strong understanding of ASIC development and digital system architecture. • Experience with FPGA prototyping for ASIC development. • Experience with firmware/software enablement and hardware bring-up. • Strong hardware debugging skills using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers. • Proficiency with Python and scripting for automation and test infrastructure. • The person hired must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the company • Comprehensive benefits package • Paid time off • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Other perks