FPGA Engineer

Multiple requirements (8) for FPGA Engineers to join a global consultancy supporting a major defence company. Ideally they are looking for these individuals to join the team in their Edinburgh office, but they are also able to support individuals workins from either Basildon, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle or Luton.

Applicants will ideally have active security clearance, and due to the nature of the project, is only available to sole British nationals or Dual British with 5+ years in the UK>

The roles are based purely onsite, but offered on a compressed 4 day week.

These roles have been determined as Inside IR35.

Role Overview:

The successful Senior & Principal FPGA engineers would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

Job Responsibilities:

Working 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

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

• 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