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Open Cosmos is a space technology company solving global challenges by providing businesses, governments, and researchers with accessible information from space. The Chief Technology Office (CTO) division designs, builds, and operates satellites, systems, and platforms that enable the company's missions. The Flight Software Team works across the full mission lifecycle, designing, implementing, and testing software for onboard and ground systems.
You will join as an FPGA Architect, shaping how FPGA systems are designed across spacecraft platforms and missions. Working at the intersection of hardware and software, you will deliver high-performance, reliable, and scalable solutions from early concept through in-orbit performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and owning FPGA architecture across spacecraft platforms and missions
- Translating system and mission needs into clear, robust FPGA design strategies
- Designing high-speed, high-reliability digital systems for payload and platform applications
- Driving architectural decisions across performance, power, and reliability trade-offs
- Establishing design standards, reusable IP, and scalable frameworks across programmes
- Leading the FPGA lifecycle from concept through simulation, verification, and hardware validation
- Shaping verification approaches including simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and fault injection
- Supporting bring-up and optimisation of high-speed interfaces and complex data pipelines
- Embedding fault tolerance and resilience into system design
- Acting as the technical authority for FPGA, guiding decisions and resolving complex challenges
- Working closely with electronics and software teams to ensure seamless integration
- Engaging with suppliers and partners on FPGA technologies and tooling
- Contributing to design reviews, test campaigns, and anomaly investigations
- Driving continuous improvement in design, build, and validation processes
- Supporting and mentoring engineers to raise the bar across the team
- Maintaining clear architectural documentation, standards, and traceability
Requirements:
- Deep knowledge of FPGA architecture and digital design using HDL (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog)
- Strong understanding of FPGA toolchains and ecosystems (Vivado, Quartus, Libero, Lattice)
- Knowledge of high-speed interfaces, data pipelines, and real-time processing systems
- Understanding of FPGA and software integration, including embedded systems environments
- Knowledge of verification, simulation, timing analysis, and design optimisation techniques
- Understanding of fault-tolerant and resilient design approaches (e.g. redundancy, error detection)
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to balance performance, power, and reliability
- Clear and structured approach to documentation, traceability, and design governance
- Ability to make sound technical decisions and communicate them effectively
- Collaborative mindset, working across multidisciplinary teams
- Drive to improve how things are done — technically and as a team
- Legal right to work in chosen location
