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# FPGA Engineer

- **Company:** Accelero
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language, Radio-Frequency Identification, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Vivado, Fpga Hardware
- **Published:** May 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/fpga-engineer-cambridge-cambridgeshire/2783428753-2/

## About the Role

Strong FPGA development experience using HDL (VHDL and/or Verilog)

Experience with AMD Vivado (other FPGA platforms also considered)

Solid grounding in Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Experience with simulation, verification and test

Understanding of RF systems would be highly beneficial

Consultancy experience or a collaborative, adaptable mindset

Why apply?

Diverse, technically challenging projects

Strong engineering culture with opportunities to learn across disciplines

High level of autonomy and ownership

Opportunity to contribute to advanced technology development from concept through to delivery

## Description

We're looking for an experienced FPGA Engineer to join a highly technical engineering consultancy delivering cutting-edge projects across radar, communications, and advanced sensing applications.

This is an opportunity to work on genuinely complex, real-world technology programmes within a multidisciplinary team of hardware, software, systems and DSP engineers.

What you'll be doing:

Developing high-quality FPGA and DSP solutions across the full development lifecycle

Working predominantly with AMD/Xilinx devices and the Vivado toolchain

Translating customer requirements into robust FPGA-based implementations

Collaborating closely with electronics, firmware and systems teams

Supporting technical discussions, design reviews and project planning


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