Senior FPGA Architect - Security-Centric Solutions

Entrust Corporation; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Growth

Flexibility

Collaboration

Job summary

Entrust Corporation in the United Kingdom seeks a technical leader to design and deliver FPGA-based security solutions. You will own FPGA architecture, implement RTL, and drive integration with embedded and host software, while guiding a team across multiple workstreams.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong VHDL, Xilinx toolchains, system-level thinking, and mentoring capabilities, with flexible remote/hybrid/on‑site options and a focus on secure, scalable hardware.

Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• Experience designing and delivering complex FPGA-based systems with VHDL RTL design, synthesis, timing closure.
• Experience integrating FPGA with hardware/software systems, bring-up and debugging.
• Software development experience (C or Python) to support tooling, test, or integration.
• Experience in Linux and/or Windows development environments.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, implementation, verification, and debug of VHDL-based FPGA solutions for new and existing products.
• Owns FPGA architectural design, including partitioning, interfaces, and performance trade-offs.
• Drives integration of FPGA components with embedded and host software systems.
• Defines and structures FPGA development work, translating requirements into deliverable tasks and plans.
• Provides estimates for FPGA activities, ensuring plans are realistic and dependencies identified.
• Coordinates and balances FPGA work across engineers to support delivery.
• Guides day-to-day execution, providing technical direction and unblocking engineers.
• Identifies and mitigates technical risks and bottlenecks.
• Defines and evolves FPGA development processes including CI/CD and verification practices.
• Contributes to system architecture with hardware, software, and product teams.
• Leads resolution of complex challenges such as timing closure and resource optimization.
• Mentors and develops engineers through reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborates across teams to align FPGA deliverables with system objectives.

Skills

FPGA architecture

VHDL

RTL design

Synthesis

Timing closure

Verification

Xilinx FPGA

C

Python

Linux/Windows

CI/CD

Education

Electronic Engineering or related discipline

CS or Mathematics

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Xilinx toolchains

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Job description

Entrust Corporation in the United Kingdom seeks a technical leader to design and deliver FPGA-based security solutions. You will own FPGA architecture, implement RTL, and drive integration with embedded and host software, while guiding a team across multiple workstreams.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong VHDL, Xilinx toolchains, system-level thinking, and mentoring capabilities, with flexible remote/hybrid/on‑site options and a focus on secure, scalable hardware.