Senior FPGA Team Lead Verified today
Position Overview
AST SpaceMobile is building the first global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard mobile devices. We seek a Senior FPGA Team Lead with deep expertise in signal processing and high-speed digital interfaces to lead complex FPGA developments and guide a multidisciplinary team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of complex FPGA-based systems.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to FPGA engineers.
- Drive system-level design decisions in collaboration with system, RF, hardware, and software teams.
- Design and implement advanced DSP algorithms including filtering and channelization.
- Develop and integrate high-speed data paths and interfaces.
- Ensure signal integrity and robust operation of high-speed links.
- Optimize designs for performance, latency, and resource utilization.
- Own the full development lifecycle: requirements, design, simulation, implementation, and validation.
- Lead lab bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Define best practices, coding standards, and design methodologies.
Education
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
Required Experience
- Minimum 8 years of FPGA design experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in FPGA design and development.
- Deep expertise in digital signal processing (DSP).
- High proficiency in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
- Strong system-level understanding and integration experience.
- Deep understanding of SERDES, transceivers, and clocking architectures.
- Proven experience with high-speed link bring-up and lab debugging.
- Fluent English (spoken and written).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Xilinx or AMD FPGA devices and toolchains (Vivado, Vitis).
- Experience with RF or wireless communication systems (LTE/5G).
- Experience with RFSoC or Zynq platforms.
- MATLAB or Python for algorithm development.
- Experience with real-time, high-throughput systems.
Required Skills
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Ability to drive complex technical decisions independently.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.