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FPGA Engineer Aerospace (R&D)

DSI Aerospace GmbH develops innovative hardware and software solutions and computer technologies for space applications. Our hardware and software are flying as part of prominent space programs such as ExoMars (Mars mission) and JUICE (Jupiter mission). Since 1997, our steadily-growing international team has been producing high-performance, customer-specific and dependable solutions.

We are looking for skilled and motivated colleagues who are passionate about developing and verifying high-quality and elegant FPGA engineering solutions for the leading European satellite missions.

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What do we expect from you?

  • Com­plet­ed degree in Com­put­er Sci­ence, Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing, Elec­tron­ics or a com­pa­ra­ble field
  • Ide­al­ly 3–5 years of expe­ri­ence in the field of FPGA design
  • A struc­tured, inde­pen­dent and respon­si­ble approach to work and a high lev­el of qual­i­ty aware­ness
  • A high lev­el of knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal design
  • A high lev­el of knowl­edge in VHDL as well as C/C++
  • Expe­ri­ence with and com­fort­able using com­mon FPGA devel­op­ment envi­ron­ments and sim­u­la­tion tools
  • Famil­iar­i­ty with the use of ver­sion con­trol soft­ware
  • Abil­i­ty to see how your work fits into a larg­er project and prod­uct and readi­ness to work with col­leagues to achieve its inte­gra­tion
  • High lev­el of writ­ten Eng­lish and at least basic flu­en­cy in spo­ken Eng­lish
  • Ide­al­ly basic writ­ten and ver­bal abil­i­ty in Ger­man

What are your responsibilities?

  • Design, devel­op­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion of com­plex FPGA designs from spec­i­fi­ca­tion to hard­ware inte­gra­tion with­in the Research & Devel­op­ment direc­torate
  • Devel­op close-to-hard­ware embed­ded soft­ware com­po­nents for Sys­tem-on-Chip FPGAs in coop­er­a­tion with soft­ware engi­neers
  • Sup­port sys­tem engi­neers for FPGA-relat­ed cus­tomer require­ment clar­i­fi­ca­tion
  • Define FPGA require­ment, which cov­ers cus­tomer require­ments (e.g., func­tion­al require­ments, inter­face require­ments, tim­ing require­ments, reg­is­ter def­i­n­i­tion, etc.)
  • Define con­straints and per­form syn­the­sis, lay­out and cor­re­spond­ing warn­ing and tim­ing analy­sis
  • Devel­op test bench com­po­nents, test cas­es and per­form sim­u­la­tion togeth­er with FPGA design
  • Inte­gra­tion of FPGA designs in hard­ware, includ­ing sup­port of test engi­neers dur­ing test cam­paigns
  • Detailed doc­u­men­ta­tion of FPGA devel­op­ment cycles accord­ing to ECSS-E-ST-20–40C and ECSS-Q-ST-60–03C stan­dards

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If you have any ques­tions, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. If not: We are look­ing for­ward to your appli­ca­tion!

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