HDL Hardware Engineer

Black Sky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. Black Sky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy.

Black Sky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

In this position you will act as a hardware designer, systems engineer, HDL programmer, and test engineer. This should seem exciting, not scary, and you must welcome the challenges that come along with the responsibility of full product ownership. You will own product design, performance, verification, and implementation from initial concept definition through final operation by the end user.

To be successful in this position, you will need to be passionate about delivering exceptional products that meet or exceed requirements and enable new capabilities for satellite performance. This passion will fuel your self-motivation to push tasks to ultimate completion. You will also need to enjoy working in a collaborative environment and work daily with engineers from multiple disciplines – systems, software, mechanical, etc.

You must be eager to receive and give peer feedback that enables our high performing team to be greater than the sum of its parts.

This position reports to the Director, Electrical Engineering and is a hybrid role based out of our Tukwila, WA office.

• Serve as digital hardware design engineer for spacecraft avionics, with involvement in all phases at different levels of assembly including requirements development, design, prototyping, bring-up, testing, debug, design iteration, and eventual transition to a production environment
• Synthesize design requirements from unit level and system level specifications
• Write HDL for variety of FPGAs and verify it using simulation and test
• Troubleshoot performance during hardware testing/bring-up
• Create interface and design description documentation to support the Flight Software (FSW) verification and validation process
• Interface with external suppliers to develop specifications, exchange data and deliverables, troubleshoot issues, and develop integration and test approaches.
• Participate in Research & Development initiatives and provide support for the establishment of new avionics products.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field involving training in digital electronics design
• 10+ years of experience in digital design including HDL programming (VHDL preferred), test bench development, and prototype testing
• Experience with embedded processors in a SoC FPGA and the programmable logic-processor interfaces associated with those
• Demonstrated ability to write test benches utilizing Model Sim, Vivado Simulator, or similar
• Hands on lab experience using multi-meters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, programmable power supplies, etc.
• Experience with implementing, prototyping, and bringing up high speed interfaces
• Excellent interpersonal skills and belief in a strong collaborative approach within a multi-disciplinary team
• Must be a U.S. Person

• Delivery of multiple products including full ownership from initial concept and architecture…