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# Senior FPGA Engineer II at Rocket Lab

Department: 120 OS - Software Engineering

**Location**
: Tucson, Arizona

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 5, 2026

## Description

Rocket Lab Optical Systems is hiring a Senior Firmware Engineer II in Tucson, Arizona to design FPGA firmware for advanced electro-optical space payloads. The role involves requirements work, FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, testing, debugging, synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis, as well as support for product bring-up and customer or production technical support. Candidates need a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or an equivalent discipline, at least 8 years of experience writing FPGA firmware from scratch in VHDL, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

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