Junior FPGA Engineer

This role sits within an established FPGA engineering team supporting performance-critical trading systems. The position offers hands-on exposure across the full FPGA development lifecycle, working closely with software engineers and trading stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions., * Work alongside software engineers and trading teams to design and deploy FPGA solutions across trading platforms

• Deliver FPGA applications end-to-end, including RTL design, synthesis, place & route, and static timing analysis
• Develop and maintain shared testing and validation frameworks
• Support FPGA-software integration by building APIs and optimising interfaces
• Identify and propose practical solutions to FPGA, hardware, and system-level constraints

• 2-3 years' experience in FPGA engineering within defence, aerospace, telecoms, or research-driven environments
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on, full-time FPGA development experience
• Strong VHDL development capability with supporting Python skills
• Experience working in Linux-based development environments
• Solid engineering fundamentals with good coding and design discipline
• Comfortable collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams
• Working knowledge of networking, computer architecture, and verification concepts
• Prior exposure to C/C++ is beneficial but not essential
• Clear interest in technology-driven trading or financial markets