Senior/ Lead FPGA Engineer

Job Description

The role entails working closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

• 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

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

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