The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.
Job Responsibilities:
The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.
*Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
*Documenting and recording deliverables
*Verifying FPGA designs
*Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
*Providing progress reports
Work Experience
Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
Mandatory
At least 5 years’ experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
Independent verification using VHDL
Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines
Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
and system level
Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
Linux and scripting experience
Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation Desirable
Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B
Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
Practical experience with agile methodology
Qualifications
Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject
UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance
Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage