FPGA Engineer / Senior FPGA Engineer

FPGA Engineer / Senior FPGA Engineer

£41,414 - £58,679 + Cutting-Edge FPGA Development + Major National Upgrade Project + Hybrid Working + Defined Benefit Pension

Harwell, Oxfordshire (Commutable from: Didcot, Oxford, Abingdon, Wantage, Wallingford, Newbury, Swindon, Reading)

Are you an FPGA Engineer looking for a technically challenging role where you can take real ownership of complex firmware development on a world-class facility upgrade project?

On offer is an opportunity to join a highly respected, not-for-profit scientific organisation, developing FPGA firmware for the next generation of magnet power supplies as part of a major upgrade programme, with a hybrid working arrangement (minimum 4 days onsite).

You will be working on advanced Xilinx FPGA designs in Vivado, delivering full-cycle HDL development for feedback control, filtering, and interlock handling using state machines, alongside simulation, verification, and on-hardware validation using logic analysers.

You’ll collaborate closely with hardware engineers and a controls team to optimise performance and develop reliable Ethernet-based control interfaces, while improving and documenting code in line with strict engineering standards and version control practices.

This role would suit an FPGA Engineer with strong HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog), looking to deepen their technical expertise through high-impact project work in a quality-focused engineering environment.

The Role:

• Develop, maintain and debug HDL firmware for Xilinx FPGAs using Vivado for magnet power supply controllers
• Implement feedback control, filtering and interlock handling using state machines
• Design and integrate interfaces to ADCs, DACs, SRAM/Flash, sensors and microcontrollers
• Verify designs via simulation test benches and complete on-hardware validation using logic analysers
• Hybrid working with a minimum of 4 days onsite, 40 hours per week (3-year fixed term contract)

• Strong FPGA/HDL firmware experience (VHDL or Verilog), ideally with Xilinx devices and Vivado
• Experience with simulation/verification/validation tools and disciplined version control practices
• Degree in Engineering/Science (or equivalent experience) plus a foundation in electronics and lab test/measurement

FPGA, Xilinx, DAC, ADC, Python, C++, HDL, PSpice, LTspice, QSpice, MATLAB, LINUX, WIN, Oxford, Didcot, Swindon, Reading, Wantage, Witney, High Wycombe

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