FPGA Design Engineer

Advanced Resource Managers; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Defence and Aerospace company seeks an FPGA Design Engineer to design and develop critical products. You'll be part of a collaborative team, working on complex FPGA designs using industry-standard tools, with opportunities for career growth. Candidates will need to secure UK SC clearance for this role.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing for Xilinx, Intel or Microsemi devices.
• Experience with complex FPGA designs using Xilinx or Altera FPGA devices.
• Knowledge of trends in FPGA design and technology.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and prove key products throughout the lifecycle.
• Define architecture and requirements with hardware and systems engineers.
• Integration support ensuring product performance.

Skills

Verification skills

Teamwork

Communication skills

Tools

Xilinx EDK

Xilinx ISE

Vivado

ModelSim

Job description

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Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the FPGA Design Engineer, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

Due to the nature of the work you will be involved in, you will be required to obtain UK SC clearance in this role.

What you will be involved in:

• You will be involved in the design, development, and proving of key products throughout the product lifecycle from concept to in-service support.
• Architecture and Requirement definition. Working with hardware and system engineers to define the FPGA needs.
• Design implementation and test.
• Prepare and efficiently maintain design and test documentation.
• Integration support. Working with systems, software, and hardware engineers to ensure product performance. It only works when it works together.

Skillset/experience required:

• Competent verification skills where SystemVerilog would be an advantage, but not mandated.
• Candidates will need to demonstrate a proven track record of designing for Xilinx, Intel or Microsemi devices and mastery of associated tool chains.
• An agile team player with good verbal and written communication skills capable of operating in a multi-disciplinary team
• Candidates will have completed a significant number of complex FPGA designs using Xilinx, and/or Altera FPGA devices (including SoC configurations using Power PC or ARM cores) and have knowledge of the trends in FPGA design and technology.
• A thorough understanding of the use of design tools such as Xilinx EDK, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx XST, Vivado, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, and ModelSim is also a Requirement.

If this all sounds like something you will be interested in then simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!