Senior FPGA Hardware Engineer

What you'll do

Viasat is a rapidly growing technology company that designs, deploys and operates innovative SATCOM products and services that span the globe. At Viasat, you will work with highly-motivated engineers in an exciting, dynamic, yet informal environment. You will be able to use your engineering experience to support the next generation of advanced communications products and systems.

We are looking for a highly motivated and capable Digital Signal Processing FPGA Engineer, with a wide-range of experience, who is looking for an opportunity to develop innovative new products with experts in the industry! In this role you will be responsible for the specification, design, test and documentation of digital hardware and FPGA design. You will be working on moderate scoped yet challenging tasks and will be mentored by leadership. Sound interesting? Keep reading....

The day-to-day

• Developing innovate digital hardware solutions to technical problems
• Use your talent to Develop Digital Solutions to Solve Very Complex Problems on a Multidisciplined Team
• Designing Advanced Digital Hardware and FPGAs
• Use of Interpersonal Skills to Help encourage and build a World Class Team
• Mentoring Junior Engineers
• Work in the Lab to Develop and Integrate Worldclass Digital Electronics into Advanced Systems

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of digital module and/or FPGA design experience
• Experience with Verilog/VHDL
• Experience implementing Digital Signal Processing in FPGAs
• Experienced in the use of lab equipment including logic analyzers, DMM, spectrum analyzers
• This position must be able to obtain a United States Secret Clearance
• US citizenship required

What will help you on the job

• Advanced Space hardware design
• Hi-Rel FPGA experience using Xilinx and Microsemi Polarfire/RTAX/RTSX/Prosaic
• Serial interface design
• Experience using Xilinx/Altera design tools including Vivado, EDK, Synplicity, Modelsim, DxDesigner
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• MSEE degree