FPGA Engineer

The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

Job Responsibilities:

The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

• Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
• Documenting and recording deliverables
• Verifying FPGA designs
• Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
• Providing progress reports

Work Experience

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

At least 5 years' experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog

Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision

Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools

Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.

Independent verification using VHDL

Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools

A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software

Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.

Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines

Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills

Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements

De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware

and system level

Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations

Linux and scripting experience

Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation Desirable

Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B

Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM

Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry

Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs

Familiarity with latest FPGA device families

Practical experience with agile methodology

Qualifications

Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject

UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance

Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage