Principal FPGA Verification Engineer

Jobtailor; West of England; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced FPGA engineer to lead and contribute to safety-critical aerospace projects. You will define architectures, implement VHDL designs, and ensure rigorous traceability from system requirements to DO-254 compliant artefacts.

You will collaborate with systems, safety, software and verification teams while driving verification strategies, toolchains, and reviews across CM, branch-based development and formal release baselines.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronic Engineering or related discipline; equivalent industrial experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to FPGA architectural definition, detailed design and implementation using VHDL.

Skills

FPGA Design

VHDL

Requirements Decomposition

Traceability

RTL Design

FPGA Simulation

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Safety-Critical Systems

DO-254 Process Understanding

Education

Electronic Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Siemens Polarion

DOORS

QuestaSim

ModelSim

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

Git

Azure DevOps

Bitbucket

Job description

• Lead or contribute to FPGA architectural definition, detailed design and implementation using VHDL
• Develop requirement-based FPGA designs with traceability from system and hardware requirements through low-level requirements, design artefacts and verification evidence
• Produce and maintain FPGA design documentation, interface definitions, implementation notes and review evidence
• Support DO-254 planning, requirements capture, design, review and verification for complex electronic hardware
• Collaborate with systems, safety, electronics, software, test and certification engineers on product integration
• Support FPGA development workflows including configuration management, branch-based development, pull requests, design reviews and formal release baselines
• Contribute to synthesis, constraints, timing closure, build scripting and implementation tool-flow management
• Support verification engineers with verification strategies, test plans, simulation environments and coverage closure
• Participate in VHDL code reviews and reviews of linting, simulation and implementation evidence
• Improve FPGA processes, toolchains and engineering practices
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to less experienced engineers
• Deliver FPGA-based solutions for safety-critical and high-integrity aerospace systems, including DO-254 products

Requirements

• Degree ideally in Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or a similar relevant discipline; equivalent industrial experience will also be considered
• Significant experience of FPGA design and development for complex digital systems
• Strong VHDL design capability, including requirements-based RTL design and maintainable, reviewable FPGA code
• Experience developing FPGA systems for high-integrity, safety-critical or mission-critical applications
• Practical understanding of DO-254 processes and required artefacts
• Experience developing FPGA designs from system or hardware requirements, including requirement decomposition, derived requirements and traceability
• Experience with requirements tools such as Siemens Polarion or DOORS
• Experience with FPGA simulation and debugging using QuestaSim or ModelSim
• Experience with FPGA implementation toolchains such as Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus
• Experience conducting code and documentation reviews in controlled development processes
• Experience with configuration management and source-control tools such as Git, Azure DevOps or Bitbucket
• Ability to work with electronics hardware, systems, software and verification engineers
• Ability to progress practical design solutions from incomplete or evolving requirements
• Strong written communication and design documentation skills
• Chartered Engineer status or progress toward professional registration advantageous
• Desired: DO-254 DAL A, B or C experience; SystemVerilog; UVM; verification strategies; test plans; coverage; linting; formal verification; automated workflows; Python, Tcl or shell scripting; HIL/SIL/test rigs; mixed hardware/software integration; aerospace interfaces and control systems; mentoring or technical leadership; aerospace, defence or avionics experience

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in FPGA design and development, particularly using VHDL for safety-critical aerospace systems, with a strong focus on requirements traceability and compliance with DO-254 processes. Capable of providing technical leadership and mentoring while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• FPGA Design and Development
• VHDL Design Capability
• DO-254 Process Understanding
• FPGA Implementation Toolchains
• Configuration Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• FPGA Design
• VHDL
• Requirements Decomposition
• FPGA Simulation
• FPGA Debugging
• FPGA Implementation
• Code Reviews
• Design Documentation
• Automated Workflows
• Safety-Critical Systems

Soft Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Written Communication
• Problem Solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer Status

Industry Keywords

• Aerospace
• Defence
• Avionics
• Safety-Critical
• High-Integrity Systems
• DO-254
• Mission-Critical Applications
• HIL/SIL
• Mixed Hardware/Software Integration
• Aerospace Interfaces

Tools & Technologies

• Siemens Polarion
• DOORS
• QuestaSim
• ModelSim
• Xilinx Vivado
• Intel Quartus
• Git
• Azure DevOps
• Bitbucket