Senior FPGA Design Engineer - Up to £70k DOE - ID51144

Humand Talent; Oxford; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Humand Talent is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer in Oxford to own FPGA design and verification across a new generation of high-performance hardware products. The role involves hands-on development with VHDL/Verilog, timing closure, and verification across interfaces like PCIe and LVDS.

You’ll join a seasoned engineering team, collaborating with electronics, software and mechanical engineers to ensure designs are production-ready with robust test coverage and DFM/DFT considerations.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with VHDL/Verilog.
• Proven ability to achieve FPGA timing closure.
• Experience creating testbenches and verification strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own FPGA design and verification across products.
• Develop and optimise VHDL-based FPGA designs.
• Tackle timing closure and performance optimisation problems.
• Work with LVDS, PCIe, GMII, Ethernet interfaces.
• Review and improve existing HDL code.
• Collaborate with electronics, software and mechanical engineers to deliver high-performing products.

Skills

FPGA design

HDL (VHDL/Verilog)

Timing closure

High-speed interfaces

Tools

VHDL

Verilog

Job description

Want to work on genuinely cutting-edge hardware?

Looking for an FPGA role where you can influence products from first concept through to manufacture?

Ready to join a highly experienced engineering team solving complex, real-world technical challenges?

Our client is an established technology business developing advanced, high-performance hardware and software products used in demanding applications around the world.

They are looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to join their development team in Oxford, taking ownership of FPGA design and verification across a new generation of technically challenging products.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll work alongside talented electronics, mechanical and software engineers, with exposure to the full product lifecyclerather than being limited to one small part of the development process.

Why This Role is Great

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own FPGA design and verification across a range of sophisticated, high-speed hardware products.
• Develop and optimise VHDL-based FPGA designs, including algorithm implementation.
• Tackle challenging timing closure and performance optimisation problems.
• Work with high-speed interfaces including LVDS, PCIe, GMII and Ethernet technologies.
• Create robust testbenches and verification environments for new functionality.
• Review and improve existing VHDL and Verilog code.
• Collaborate closely with electronics, software and mechanical engineers to develop high-performing, commercially viable products.
• Help ensure designs are ready for manufacture, with appropriate test coverage, DFM and DFT considerations.
• Get involved from early-stage concepts and technical investigations right through to production and post-release support.
• Explore modern engineering approaches, including opportunities to use AI-assisted tools to enhance your development workflow.

About You

This could be a great fit if you’ve built strong experience developing FPGA-based products and enjoy taking ownership of technically demanding engineering problems.

Our client’s wishlist includes:

• Strong commercial experience with VHDL, ideally including algorithm implementation.
• Good experience achieving FPGA timing closure.
• Knowledge of digital interface standards such as LVDS, PCIe and GMII.
• Experience creating testbenches and verification strategies.
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Git or SVN.
• An understanding of high-speed digital design.

What Makes This Opportunity Different?

This isn’t a role where you’ll spend years maintaining one small piece of legacy code.

You’ll be working on complex, high-performance hardware, solving interesting FPGA challenges and seeing your designs progress into real manufactured products.

There is plenty of scope to take ownership, deepen your expertise and have a genuine technical impact.

Interested?

Diversity & Inclusion

Our client and recruitment partners are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcoming applications from people of all backgrounds. If your experience is transferable or you meet most rather than all of the wishlist above, we would still encourage you to apply.