FPGA Engineer - Glasgow - Submarines

FPGA Engineer – Glasgow – Submarines

FPGA Engineer – Glasgow – Submarines

Apply locations Glasgow time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR6135373

Job Description

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) Engineer

Full Time

Glasgow

Why Rolls-Royce?

Our submarines business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet. To sustain our capability and products for the next 50 years, we are engaged in an active programme of research and development into control system technologies of the future.

A role within Submarines will offer you the opportunity to work across all phases of the product life cycle, solving technical challenges across a wide range of digital, software, programmable hardware and electronics technologies, systems, and applications. We want you to maximise your potential and will support your technical development through coaching, experience, and training.

About The Role:

You will work within our safety critical firmware development team across all design phases of the firmware lifecycle. The team uses agile SCRUM methods to develop high integrity firmware applications adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures, designs and HDL code for controls firmware applications essential for the protection and monitoring of nuclear propulsion plant.

What you will be doing:

You will follow a DevOps-based firmware development lifecycle to deliver customer requirements by:

• Developing high-level firmware requirements using DOORS
• Creating architectural designs
• Defining low level requirements and detailed designs
• Writing VHDL and Verilog HDL code using Sigasi Studio
• Simulating HDL designs at unit, integration and system level using Mentor Graphics QuestaSIM
• Undertaking synthesis, place and route and static timing analysis using Synopsis Synplify, targeting Xilinx FPGAs
• Developing Python scripts for process automation
• Operating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) toolsets
• Managing change control and configuration management using GIT
• You will be engaged in problem solving
• You will be required to demonstrate process adherence and solution correctness
• You will be expected to engage in continued improvement of our firmware development process
• You will support process and technical audits
• You will liaise with the Software, Systems and Electronics teams
• You will manage suppliers, including scoping packages of work and reviewing their deliveries.

Who we are looking for:

• Qualified to Degree, or HND level: In Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic to become familiar with new techniques and tools
• Experienced and talented programmable hardware engineer
• Experienced in digital electronics design
• Experienced in programmable logic device design
• Experienced in real-time systems
• Awareness of safety-critical development constraints (e.g. IEC62566)

Behavioural Competencies

• Customer focus
• Priority setting
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Conflict management
• Timely decision making
• Planning and organising own and others’ work
• Dealing with ambiguity

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality.

Job Category

Electrical and Electronics

Posting Date

07 Mar 2025; 00:03

Posting End Date

15 Mar 2025

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.

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