# Senior FPGA Engineer

We are looking to add a Senior FPGA Engineer to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing leading-edge hardware for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems, we would like to hear from you. In this position, you will be responsible for FPGA circuits and systems through all phases of the development process. The ideal candidate will have experience in FPGA design, verification, test, and deployment at the HDL level. FPGA HDL designs will include high-speed serial interfaces and data streams, digital processing cores, multiple clocks and clock domains, and management interfaces. Testing, validation, and verification will also be central tasks for any FPGA design. Experience in digital signal processing or board-level hardware design is also desirable. The successful candidate will present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team, as well as participate in proposal-writing efforts. As such, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineeri

- **Id**: 1199495
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-senior-fpga-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: El Segundo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T19:28:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:03:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1954
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Electronics Design, Satellite Communications, RF & Wireless Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 5315
- **Name**: CesiumAstro
- **Domain**: cesiumastro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cesiumastro>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0.025
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 168000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 168000

## Technologies

- **HDL Coder** — Optional: yes
- **Siemens ModelSim** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes
- **VHDL** — Optional: yes
- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T20:03:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 45
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.597
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 168000
- **Is top pay**: no

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