# FPGA Development Lead (level 4)

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space - anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space. Summary As the FPGA Development Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Firefly Aerospace and space exploration. You will serve as a senior technical leader and hands-on contributor, designing, implementing, and verifying high-reliability FPGA designs for our launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground systems. You will provide technical direction, mentor engineers on complex FPGA problems, and drive best practices while remaining deeply involved in RTL design, verificatio

- **Id**: 3831078
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/firefly-aerospace-fpga-development-lead-level-4>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cedar Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:33:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T10:08:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5700
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Launch Services, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 63753
- **Name**: Firefly Aerospace
- **Domain**: fireflyspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/firefly-aerospace-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Technologies

- **Formal Verification** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SpaceWire** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **UVM** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **VHDL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T19:33:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 8
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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