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Senior DSP/FPGA Engineer [26052]

Noordwijk, NL

Closing: March 19, 2026

Engineering
HE Space Team Adriana Camacho
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Company description

HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years.

We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, ExoMars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station.
HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.
We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry. 

Job description

What is expected from you:

  • 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
  • mplementation 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
  • 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

Our benefits in The Netherlands!

We offer competitive compensation and our benefits packages are customized per location to better match local needs. Here in the spotlight are 3 of them for our employees located in the Netherlands at our industry customers.

HE Space will support your relocation to another country.

Relocation Support

Financial Support for your relocation expenses and the company contributes up to 1500 euros for your accommodation during the first month of employment.

Contribution to health insurance

Contribution to health insurance

HE Space contributes a monthly amount to the statutory health insurance premium covering basic healthcare.

HE Space supports training.

Training & Professional Development

Your individual training needs are important to us, and we support your attendance at conferences, e-learning, conventional group and individual classes.

Qualifications

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

  • 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
  • Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

Additional information

This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to  Adriana Camacho by clicking on the button “Apply for this job”, quoting job NL-HP-26052.

An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!

Inclusive and committed employer, our company works every day to combat all forms of discrimination and promote a respectful working environment. That's why, committed to gender diversity and overall inclusivity, we encourage all applications and profiles. 

Last apply date: 19/03/2026

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