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# Senior FPGA Engineer

- **Company:** MASS Consultants
- **Location:** Lincolnshire, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £52,000.0 - £62,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux on Embedded Systems, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language, MATLAB, Signal Processing, Data Streaming, Systems Architecture, System on a Chip, SystemVerilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), SC Clearance, Bare Metal, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-fpga-engineer/mass-consultants-job107861512

## About the Role

We're expecting that you've done this role before and are comfortable operating at both a technical and leadership level.

Essential experience

 * Strong experience developing FPGA-based DSP systems for real-time or RF-centric applications
 * Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and HDL Coder workflows
 * Experience deploying to Xilinx RFSoC and/or Intel FPGA platforms
 * Experience working with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, signal generators, analysers)
 * Experience leading or mentoring engineers

Desirable experience

 * Embedded Linux or bare-metal C development
 * High-speed interfaces (AXI, JESD204, memory architectures)
 * Streaming data architectures and high-throughput signal handling
 * Experience within EW, radar or spectrum-related systems

Our non-negotiables

Due to the highly secure nature of the work, you must be:

 * A UK National
 * Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Government SC clearance (Gov.uk guidance)

## Description

You'll lead the design and development of FPGA-based systems that sit within complex RF and signal processing chains.

Working closely with system engineers, software teams and domain specialists, you'll translate requirements into robust, high-performance implementations.

You'll:

 * Lead FPGA design, implementation and verification for RF signal processing and high-throughput systems
 * Develop on AMD/Xilinx RFSoC (Zynq UltraScale+) and Intel FPGA platforms (Agilex/Stratix)
 * Integrate with high-speed ADC/DAC interfaces and real-time data pipelines
 * Work across VHDL, SystemVerilog and MATLAB/Simulink HDL workflows
 * Support lab-based integration, test and evaluation using RF instrumentation
 * Contribute to architectural decisions and system-level design
 * Drive best practice in verification, documentation and design quality
 * Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers
 * Work directly with stakeholders to shape requirements and solutions


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