Senior FPGA Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Oxford

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement, and verify FPGA RTL for high-speed digital, video, and optical-interfacing systems.
• Develop FPGA designs in VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog, including high-speed serial interfaces, video processing, framing, and on-chip instrumentation.
• Bring up and configure high-speed serial transceivers and clock-data recovery, and implement line coding, pattern generation, and error-rate instrumentation.
• Design digital video interfaces and the associated framing, timing, and data-handling logic.
• Develop functional verification: testbenches, simulation, and timing closure across multiple clock domains.
• Lead FPGA bring-up, debug, and on-board validation, resolving issues across the hardware and firmware boundary.
• Author and maintain RTL documentation, verification evidence, and coding standards, and contribute to design reviews.
• Collaborate across electronics, RF, photonics, and systems engineering, and support the path from prototype to product.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree (BEng/MEng) or PhD in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field, with substantial relevant experience at senior level.
• Strong FPGA RTL design in VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• High-speed serial transceiver and clock-data-recovery bring-up, and serial protocols such as line coding and PRBS.
• Functional verification: testbench development, simulation, and timing closure.
• Sound clock-domain-crossing and high-speed digital design discipline.
• Digital video interfacing (for example HDMI) or comparable high-bandwidth digital protocols.
• FPGA toolchain proficiency, and a willingness to work across vendor toolchains as required.

• Schematic capture and high-speed PCB design using eCAD tools such as Altium.
• Knowledge of high-speed PCB layout techniques: controlled impedance, differential routing, length/skew matching, and power integrity.
• Signal-integrity simulation (for example HyperLynx, Ansys SI, ADS, or similar).
• Electronic interfacing to optical or other sensor/transducer devices.
• Test-and-measurement awareness — eye diagrams, error-rate measurement, and high-speed serial debug.
• A proven track record of delivering FPGA firmware into a product.

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Private medical & dental insurance
• 28 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Relocation support
• Visa support available