Senior DSP/FPGA Engineer

Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we are looking for a highly skilled Senior DSP/FPGA engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration

Microelectronics technical competence

• Microelectronic design for Integrated Circuits (digital and mixed-signal, wired and wireless), FPGA, IP Cores
• Microelectronic development projects from conception through qualification to application
• Microelectronics functional and performance verification, validation, qualification and acceptance
• Microelectronic technology, design methods and tools from HW-SW co-design, architecture modelling/analysis, circuit (schematic/hardware description languages), (high-level) synthesis, place and route, layout to verification, validation testing and application deployment
• Management, monitoring and supporting of industrial microelectronic activities
• Microelectronic standards for commercial and space application
• Implementation of digital signal processing algorithms in FPGAs (i.e. Understanding of filtering, FFT, sampling theory, etc.), accelerators, digital signal processors, microprocessors and/or ASICs
• FPGA, RF-SoC and/or ASIC design, simulation, verification, debugging, synthesis, layout and tools
• Design methodology and tools for reusable IP cores
• Integrated circuit functional, electrical, and environmental testing

Experience in two or more specific competences is considered to be advantageous:

• Implementation of algorithms for base band communication (demodulation, modulation, coding, decoding, error correction in general and satellite communication and/or 3GPP specifically), GNSS, SAR and/or image/video signal processing
• System level modelling with Matlab, SystemC and/or SystemVerilog
• Communication base band, GNSS, Artificial Intelligence and/or image/video processor architectures

Expertise in the following topics will be considered as beneficial:

• RISC-V, SPARC and ARM processor instruction set architectures (ISA) and their extensions
• Spacewire, Spacefibre, Ethernet, PCIe, JESD204, CAN and MIL-STD-1553 interfaces
• Hardware Software Co-design
• High-Level Synthesis and Auto-coding
• Hardware Description Language coding rules and linting tools
• Programming in C, C++ and Python

• Master\'s Degree in the relevant field
• Microelectronic design for Integrated Circuits (digital and mixed-signal, wired and wireless), FPGA, IP Cores
• Microelectronic development projects from conception through qualification to application
• Microelectronics functional and performance verification, validation, qualification and acceptance
• Microelectronic technology, design methods and tools from HW-SW co-design, architecture modelling/analysis, circuit (schematic/hardware description languages), (high-level) synthesis, place and route, layout to verification, validation testing and application deployment
• Management, monitoring and supporting of industrial microelectronic activities
• Microelectronic standards for commercial and space applications

• A competitive salary
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget)
• Travel allowance
• Extensive relocation package

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: ESTEC

Deadline to apply: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!