Motorsport FPGA Architect

Cosworth Group Holdings Limited; South Cambridgeshire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cosworth Group Holdings Limited is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer to own FPGA development for motorsport electronics, focusing on the Antares powertrain controller from requirements through RTL to release and in-service support.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and systems teams, ensuring robust verification and timely delivery while maintaining quality and safety considerations across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent qualification in electronic engineering, control systems engineering or a related discipline.
• Proven FPGA development experience covering requirements, architecture, detailed RTL design, verification, integration and release.
• Strong VHDL skills and practical experience with Intel Quartus Prime, including TimeQuest timing analysis, or an equivalent FPGA development toolchain.
• A clear understanding of high-quality FPGA design techniques, including synchronous design, clock and reset architecture, metastability and clock-domain crossing management, timing constraints, defensive design and peer review.
• Experience developing testbenches and using simulation to verify functional behaviour, corner cases and fault handling before hardware integration.
• Good knowledge of digital electronics and common embedded interfaces, with the ability to read schematics and collaborate effectively with hardware and software engineers.
• A disciplined approach to requirements, documentation, configuration control, verification evidence and quality engineering processes.
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly, work effectively both independently and within cross-disciplinary teams, and deliver to agreed timescales.

Responsibilities

• Define FPGA requirements and architectures for new and existing motorsport electronics products.
• Develop, review and maintain synthesizable VHDL RTL for control, timing, data acquisition, communications, signal-processing and diagnostic functions.
• Create verification plans, self-checking testbenches and simulation environments; demonstrate requirements coverage and support system-level validation.
• Perform synthesis; develop I/O and timing constraints; and complete timing closure, clock-domain crossing analysis and resource-utilisation reviews.
• Integrate FPGA logic with processors, memories and peripherals using appropriate memory-mapped, serial and high-speed interfaces.
• Support board bring-up and laboratory testing using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analysers and JTAG; diagnose issues across FPGA, hardware and embedded software boundaries.
• Produce clear requirements, design descriptions, verification evidence, release records and support documentation throughout the product lifecycle.
• Use configuration management and version-control workflows effectively, contributing to peer reviews and continuous improvement of FPGA development practices.
• Estimate work, communicate progress, technical risks and trade-offs, and support programme delivery against agreed milestones.
• Represent Cosworth in technical discussions with customers, suppliers and development partners where required.
• Consider the health and safety, environmental and energy impact of all activities.
• Support the Company’s compliance with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 by following company policy and best practice.

Skills

FPGA development

VHDL

Intel Quartus Prime

TimeQuest timing analysis

Clock-domain crossing

Embedded interfaces

Education

Degree in electronic engineering or related discipline

Tools

Intel Quartus Prime

TimeQuest

JTAG

Job description

Cosworth Group Holdings Limited is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer to own FPGA development for motorsport electronics, focusing on the Antares powertrain controller from requirements through RTL to release and in-service support.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and systems teams, ensuring robust verification and timely delivery while maintaining quality and safety considerations across the product lifecycle.