Senior Design Engineer: FPGA/ASIC for Space & 5G

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is partnering with a cutting-edge technology business in Southampton to recruit Senior Design Engineers with FPGA/ASIC expertise. You'll contribute to non-terrestrial communications tech for 5G base stations intended for satellite operation.

You'll design RTL, develop testbenches, optimise timing and resources, and collaborate across algorithms, system architecture and verification teams to deliver high-quality hardware solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial FPGA and/or ASIC design experience.
• Experience with synthesis and timing analysis.
• Knowledge of high-throughput data or signal-processing designs.
• Experience optimising timing and hardware resources.
• Familiar with industry-standard EDA simulation and synthesis tools.
• Nice-to-have: 5G, DSP algorithms, UVM, AMBA, PCIe, JESD, Python or AMD/Xilinx FPGA technology.

Responsibilities

• Developing complex RTL designs targeting FPGA and ASIC.
• Translating system and algorithm requirements into RTL micro-architectures.
• Creating testbenches and validating designs on latest FPGA platforms.
• Optimising designs for timing, throughput, hardware resources and power.
• Working across design lifecycle from micro-architecture to verification and physical implementation.
• Collaborating with Algorithm, System Architecture and Verification engineers.
• Producing design specifications and technical documentation.

Skills

FPGA design

ASIC design

Synthesis

Timing analysis

High-throughput DSP

EDA tools

SystemC/C++

Python

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is partnering with a cutting-edge technology business in Southampton to recruit Senior Design Engineers with FPGA/ASIC expertise. You'll contribute to non-terrestrial communications tech for 5G base stations intended for satellite operation.

You'll design RTL, develop testbenches, optimise timing and resources, and collaborate across algorithms, system architecture and verification teams to deliver high-quality hardware solutions.