FPGA Designer; Hybrid
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, 28052, USA
Listed on 2026-07-06
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Engineering
Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics, Electronics Engineer, Robotics
Job Title
Location:
Madrid Tres Cantos, Spain
Principal
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
You will lead technical definition and design of FPGAs for satellite-based units that position and connect anyone and anything, everywhere, help observing our planet and optimizing the use of our planet's resources and even to spacecraft to discover the universe!
You will lead FPGA developments in VHDL for space applications processing units:
- Architecture definition
- Design
- Verification
- Support to Validation
- Documentation
The activity is involved in a multidisciplinary team, with opportunity to participate in international engineering teams.
Education &
Qualification:
Master degree in industrial engineering, aerospace engineering, telecommunication engineering, software engineering, physics, mathematics or other similar technical discipline.
We are looking for a candidate with:
At least 2 years of experience, 2 of them in space sector.
- Synchronous VHDL design.
- Understanding of technical requirements and definition of technical solutions.
- VHDL/Verilog simulation (pre-synthesis & post-layout verification).
- Design synthesis and implementation/place and route
- Support to Design validation
- Preparation of design documentation
- Design Reviews with customer
Skills:
- VHDL, Verilog and System Verilog
- Simulation with Model Sim/Questa Core
- Synthesis with Synplify/Vivado
- Implementation/place and route with Vivado/Libero
- Version control (e.g. Git)
Languages:
- Fluent English
Skills to make the difference:
- MATLAB/Simulink, C programming experience, Python, Pearl
- Knowledge of microprocessors development environment
- Knowledge of Data Processing
- Team work, improvement spirit, pragmatic, results oriented, dynamic, responsible
- Responsible on technical performances, cost and schedule of the solution
- Motivated to learn new technologies, and space-business processes and tools
- Agile methodology
- French
We offer you:
- Be part of an innovative sector with interplanetary impact
- Working with international customers
- Trust and empowerment
- Growing opportunities in a space industry leader company
- Partial remote working
- Free meals at the office
- Flexible working hours
- Holiday days above the average
- Flexible benefits plan (private health insurance, transportation, kindergarten and trainings)
At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #Space For Life .
Great journeys start here, apply now!
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