Lead Hardware Engineer - FPGA & SoC for Defense Systems

Morson Human Resources Limited; England; On-site; GBP 111,585 - 150,158; Full time

Job summary

Morson Human Resources Limited seeks a Principal / Lead Hardware Engineer to join a major defence programme developing advanced electronic systems for air, land and maritime platforms. This role focuses on FPGA and processor‑based hardware across the full product lifecycle, from requirements capture and architecture to detailed design, integration, verification and qualification.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high‑performance electronic hardware for safety and

Qualifications

• Strong background in high-speed digital hardware design within defence, aerospace or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience designing FPGA and SoC-based hardware (Xilinx, AMD, Intel/Altera or equivalent).
• Proven experience designing complex multilayer PCBs, including high-speed interfaces, DDR memory and high-performance processors.
• Experience using schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, Xpedition or equivalent.
• Hands-on board-level debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and protocol analysers.
• Experience integrating hardware with embedded firmware and software.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity and timing analysis.
• Experience supporting verification, validation and qualification activities.
• Ability to translate system requirements into robust hardware designs.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex digital and mixed-signal electronic hardware.
• Develop hardware architectures for FPGA, SoC and processor-based solutions.
• Produce schematics and support PCB layout for high-speed digital designs.
• Design and validate interfaces such as DDR memory, PCIe, Ethernet and other high-speed protocols.
• Integrate hardware with embedded software, firmware and FPGA solutions.
• Carry out simulation, verification, validation and design analysis activities.
• Support board bring-up, hardware debugging and fault investigation.
• Work collaboratively with Systems, Software, Firmware, RF, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
• Support environmental, EMC/EMI and qualification testing.
• Produce technical documentation throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Support system integration, demonstrations and customer acceptance activities where required.

Skills

High-speed digital design

FPGA/SoC hardware

PCB layout

Signal integrity

Debugging with test equipment

Embedded integration

Tools

Altium Designer

OrCAD

Xpedition

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Morson Human Resources Limited seeks a Principal / Lead Hardware Engineer to join a major defence programme developing advanced electronic systems for air, land and maritime platforms. This role focuses on FPGA and processor‑based hardware across the full product lifecycle, from requirements capture and architecture to detailed design, integration, verification and qualification.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high‑performance electronic hardware for safety and