Senior FPGA Design Engineer—Secure, High-Performance HW

Viasat; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat UK is seeking an experienced FPGA Design Engineer to own the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production. You will work within a multi-disciplined team to deliver secure digital design solutions with complex interfaces and protocols.

The role requires strong VHDL FPGA development and verification skills, plus the ability to optimize for performance and power. UK SC clearance or the ability to obtain it is essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Experience taking FPGA designs through the full development life cycle.
• Strong skills in FPGA development (design and verification) using VHDL.
• Ability to optimise designs for performance and power dissipation.
• Experience performing integration/debug of FPGA solutions in hardware.
• Experience in using configuration management systems for code control.
• UK citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production from a technical and project perspective.
• Leads the elicitation of requirements to define the FPGA implementation
• Own the definition of the FPGA architecture with the development team
• Define project plan with Project Manager and ensure delivery against the plan
• May co-ordinate other FPGA design Engineers on a particular design
• Responsible for the interface with external FPGA and IP suppliers
• Test bench development and test in the system; involvement in proposals and white papers for future tech roadmaps

Skills

FPGA development

VHDL

HDL verification

Integration

Performance/power optimization

UK citizenship

Tools

ModelSim/QuestaSim

Libero

Xilinx/Altera toolchains

Job description

Viasat UK is seeking an experienced FPGA Design Engineer to own the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production. You will work within a multi-disciplined team to deliver secure digital design solutions with complex interfaces and protocols.

The role requires strong VHDL FPGA development and verification skills, plus the ability to optimize for performance and power. UK SC clearance or the ability to obtain it is essential for this position.