FPGA Development Engineer

Job Description:

Several positions of FPGA Development Engineer are now open in Airbus CRISA (Airbus Defense & Space) in Tres Cantos (Madrid area) for different Space business: Launchers, Earth Exploration (Copernicus), Space Exploration (Artemis), Commercial (Telecommunications Satellites). This is an opportunity to join a diverse and dynamic Technical Team focused on:

• Shape the future based on innovation of our products, new technologies and way of working, 
• State of the art product consolidation,
• Continuous Performance improvement.

Definitely, we are moved by our passion to make it fly!

In accordance with the proven Candidate skills, she/he will be part of Digital team and will report/be supported by the relevant Skill Manager.  Functionally, the Candidate is also part of the Project, with the main mission of developing/designing electronic units for flight equipment to achieve the unit delivery in accordance with project schedule, cost and quality requirements. In a day-to-day basis, she/he will report to Project Manager. Within each project, the tasks are coordinated by a Technical Responsible in charge of direct reporting to the Project Manager. The Engineer’s tasks comprise the complete development of an electronic equipment: from the analysis of the requirements to the final delivery of the flight model once accepted.

Task and accountabilities

You will be part of a high performance and highly experienced and motivated engineering team that works in the development of FPGAs designs for space applications.

With the help of your mentor and your team, you will be responsible to define, implement and verify designs implemented in RTL VHDL in any of our working fields: Launchers (Ariane 6, Vega), Power management subsystems, Attitude control subsystems, Satellite electric propulsion, Image sensors management, data acquisition and processing, Instrument control units, On board computing, Antenna electronics, Communications.

You will be in charge of the analysis and synthesis of the high level requirements, the generation of the FPGA specification and design architecture. The design implementation in RTL VHDL and its functional verification, the physical implementation (synthesis and layout) and its verification, the design documentation, and the communications with the customer in relation to the FPGA design.

If you want to work in space and be part of the next space revolution, if you feel passion about electronics and computing, and if you like to design with robustness and quality in mind, this is the position for you.

Recommended skills 

• High degree in engineering, and high background in Microelectronics.
• At least 3 years of experience in FPGA designs.
• Very good knowledge in VHDL. Verilog, System Verilog is a plus.
• Very good understanding of physical and timing constraints in synthesis and layout.
• Very good understanding of Static Timing Analysis.
• Knowledge of FPGA System on Chip.
• Knowledge in high level synthesis.
• Scripting languages Python, TCL, Bash. Programming languages C/C++ is a plus
• FPGA design tools from Synopsys, Mentor, Actel/Microchip, Xilinx.
• Emerging processor technology RISC-V
• Knowledge of HW prototyping solutions.

Feel like you can't tick some boxes above? If you have most of the skills and experience that we're looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply! 

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