Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer in Edinburgh

Quest Global is an organisation at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognised expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

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:

• 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.

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.