Senior Digital Design Engineer

Umbra • Santa Barbara, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our dynamic Space Systems team as a Senior Digital Design Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of creating cutting-edge HDL-based digital designs for next-generation space radar systems. In this role, you'll work closely alongside our software and electrical engineering teams to innovate, analyze, manufacture, and rigorously test microwave subsystems. Our aim is to hire this position to work in either our Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA office, Arlington, VA office, or Reston, VA office (coming soon).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s of Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Knowledge of foundational electrical engineering, computer architecture and digital design concepts.
• 5+ years of proven, relevant experience in digital design with FPGA and SoC devices.
• Development experience with Xilinx devices and design suite, such as Vivado, SDK and Vitis.
• Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience developing MCU and SoC software in Rust or C/C++.
• Working knowledge of modern FPGA architectures and external interfaces, including high speed converters, DDR RAM, and Solid-State NAND and NOR based storage.
• Familiarity with standard physical layers for digital communication (UART, SPI, LVDS).

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years of proven, relevant experience in digital design with FPGA and SoC devices.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment.
• Experience with high-speed data transfer and bandwidth management.
• Knowledge of digital communication systems and modulations (QPSK, 8-PSK).
• Experience developing FPGA based hardware for spacecraft systems.
• Experience with parallelizing DSP algorithms.
• Knowledge of Python and SystemVerilog.
• Experience with interfacing with vendors and customers as the technical representative.

Responsibilities

• Develop FPGA-based digital designs for radar, electronic warfare, and communications.
• Work with electrical and systems engineers to integrate Xilinx SoC based hardware with high-speed data converters and associated microwave transmitter and receiver chains.
• Continuously collaborate with the payload engineering team to address mechanical, thermal and power subsystems and interfaces.
• Rapidly develop prototypes and iteratively improve hardware and firmware.
• Prepare engineering documentation, reports, and test plans.
• Perform other professional duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off, Sick, Family & Medical Leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, STD (employer funded)
• Vol Life, Critical Illness, Accidental, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance (employee funded)
• 401k with 3% non-elective company contribution
• Stock Options
• Free Parking
• Free lunch daily in office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior