Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer

Job Requirements

Role Overview:

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

• 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

• Edinburgh, UK

• 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

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