Senior FPGA Engineer

We’re recruiting for Senior to Principal FPGA Engineers to join a highly capable engineering team working on advanced FPGA, embedded and real-time technology programmes within a secure and technically challenging environment.

This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects involving FPGA design, high-speed digital systems, signal processing and hardware/software integration, contributing throughout the full development lifecycle.

As a Senior or Principal FPGA Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the architecture, design, implementation and verification of FPGA-based solutions.

You’ll work closely with software, embedded, electronics, systems and verification teams whilst helping shape future technical direction and mentoring junior engineers where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

• FPGA design and development using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog

• FPGA architecture and implementation

• FPGA verification and validation

• Hardware bring-up and integration

• High-speed digital design

• Hardware/software co-design activities

• Debugging and troubleshooting complex systems

• Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams

• Contributing to technical reviews and design decisions

• Supporting projects throughout the full development lifecycle

• FPGA Design & Development
• VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog
• FPGA Verification
• Hardware Integration
• High-Speed Digital Design
• FPGA Toolchains (Vivado, Quartus or similar)
• Hardware Debugging & Troubleshooting
• Full Product Development Lifecycle Experience
• Understanding of Embedded Systems

Desirable Experience

• Xilinx, AMD, Intel (Altera) or SoC FPGA platforms

• Embedded Linux

• C/C++

• Signal Processing / DSP

• High-Speed Interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, JESD, Aurora, etc.)

• Video Processing Systems

• Communication Systems

• Defence, Aerospace, Telecommunications or Broadcast industries

• Modelsim / QuestaSim

• FPGA-based real-time systems

If you’re a Senior, Lead or Principal FPGA Engineer looking for your next challenge, I’d be pleased to arrange a confidential discussion. Skills

• FPGA Design (Xilinx/Altera)
• FPGA Design and Development
• Verilog & VHDL (HDL)