Principal FPGA Engineer (VHDL) – Hybrid & Benefits

General Dynamics Missions System International; Hastings; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Nine-day fortnight

Career development plan

Flexible benefits

Job summary

General Dynamics Mission Systems in the UK is seeking a Principal FPGA Engineer to own and lead FPGA solutions for advanced mission computing systems. You will stay hands-on with VHDL while guiding the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements to verification, with a focus on high integrity, safety-critical designs.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate across hardware, software and verification teams to improve processes and deliver robust FPGA solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing FPGA solutions using VHDL.
• Strong knowledge of FPGA design, simulation and verification, including test-benches.
• Experience taking FPGA designs through requirements capture, implementation, integration and verification.
• Familiarity with AMD Xilinx SoCs or Microchip/Microsemi FPGA devices.
• Knowledge of high-integrity or safety‑critical FPGA development.
• Familiarity with DO-254 or comparable development assurance standards.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and verifying complex FPGA solutions using VHDL.
• Taking FPGA designs from requirements capture through to integration and verification.
• Developing simulation environments and verification test benches.
• Contributing to FPGA architecture and technical design decisions.
• Leading technical and design reviews.
• Investigating and resolving complex design, integration and verification issues.
• Estimating, planning and taking ownership of FPGA development activities.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.
• Working closely with various functions within the organisation.
• Supporting the continuous improvement of FPGA development processes, tools and engineering practices.

Skills

VHDL

FPGA design

C programming

Python

Tools

AMD Xilinx Vivado

QuestaSim

Git

Job description

General Dynamics Mission Systems in the UK is seeking a Principal FPGA Engineer to own and lead FPGA solutions for advanced mission computing systems. You will stay hands-on with VHDL while guiding the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements to verification, with a focus on high integrity, safety-critical designs.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate across hardware, software and verification teams to improve processes and deliver robust FPGA solutions.