Astspacemobile
Senior FPGA Team Lead
Riga, Latvia. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Senior FPGA Team Lead will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex FPGA-based systems. This role involves providing technical leadership to engineers and driving system-level design decisions.
What you will do
- 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.
- 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 from requirements to validation.
- Lead lab bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Define best practices, coding standards, and design methodologies.
Required qualifications
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- A minimum of 8 years of FPGA design experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in FPGA design and development.
- Strong expertise in digital signal processing (DSP).
- High proficiency in VHDL / Verilog / 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).
- Ability to work in a standard office environment and use a computer for extended periods.
Nice to have
- Experience with Xilinx / AMD FPGA devices and toolchains (Vivado, Vitis).
- Experience with RF / wireless communication systems (LTE/5G).
- Experience with RFSoC / Zynq platforms.
- MATLAB / Python for algorithm development.
- Experience with real-time, high-throughput systems.
About the company
AST SpaceMobile and its global partners are building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones.