Real-Time FPGA & Digital Control Engineer

Zero Point Motion; Bristol; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Pension

Private medical insurance

Job summary

A technology innovation firm is seeking an FPGA / Digital Systems Engineer to design and verify real-time digital control systems. This role focuses on applying mathematics to develop and stabilize FPGA systems interfacing with MEMS and photonic hardware. The successful candidate will possess strong skills in digital design and hands-on experience with FPGA implementations. Compensation includes share options, pension, and private medical insurance, promoting a culture of equity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in digital design and real-time systems.
• Solid grounding in control theory or signal processing.
• Hands-on experience bringing up FPGA designs on real hardware.
• Experience implementing and verifying control loops, PLLs, or equivalent feedback systems.
• Comfort working at the boundary between digital logic, analog signals, and physical systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and verify FPGA systems interfacing with photonic sensors, MEMS devices, and high-speed ADCs/DACs.
• Implement and stabilize real-time systems like PLLs, AGC, nested feedback loops.
• Translate mathematical models into discrete-time digital implementations.

Skills

Digital design fundamentals

Real-time systems

Signal processing

FPGA design

Control theory

Testing and verification

Tools

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Python

Job description

A technology innovation firm is seeking an FPGA / Digital Systems Engineer to design and verify real-time digital control systems. This role focuses on applying mathematics to develop and stabilize FPGA systems interfacing with MEMS and photonic hardware. The successful candidate will possess strong skills in digital design and hands-on experience with FPGA implementations. Compensation includes share options, pension, and private medical insurance, promoting a culture of equity and inclusion.