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 
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Work Experience 

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

• At least 7 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

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

Location

• Edinburgh, UK

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