FPGA Engineer - Level 2 - New Glenn

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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As a part of the New Glenn Avionics FPGA team, you will play a critical role in the development, implementation, verification, and testing of our FPGA based designs for spaceflight systems. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise with dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

• Generate FPGA requirements in coordination with systems engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering and subsystem owners.
• Design, write HDL code, verify and document complex low-level modules
• Participate reviews of FPGA Design and Verification Artifacts
• 10% travel to other Blue Origin locations for various meetings, or large-scale company events.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, electrical, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of FPGA/ASIC design and verification work experience.
• Experience writing or using FPGA level requirements
• Experience in writing RTL using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL (SystemVerilog desired).
• Experience with Clock Domain Crossing techniques and analysis
• Experience with FPGA development tools such as Xilinx Vivado, and Microchip Libero.
• Experience with FPGA Timing Constraint definition, STA, and timing closure.
• Experience with QuestaSim or equivalent simulator
• Experience testing and debugging failures in simulation to root cause problems
• Experience using FPGA Design and Verification tools in a Linux environment
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and to communicate technical information clearly and concisely.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships.

• 3+ years of FPGA/ASIC development experience.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS Next Generation.
• Experience with sophisticated verification techniques such as Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Constrained Random Verification.
• Experience with scripting languages
• Experience with revision control systems, such as Git/SVN
• Experience with common on-chip bus protocols such as AMBA (AXI, AHB, APB)
• Working knowledge of DO-254, or other safety-critical standards

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