Senior FPGA Engineer

Avanti Recruitment Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanti Recruitment Limited is helping a growing UK engineering business recruit a Senior FPGA Engineer to join the Southampton team. The role covers the full FPGA lifecycle, including design, verification, and integration for high-speed data and video/image processing systems.

The successful candidate will work closely with embedded software and electronics engineers, take ownership of technical work, and mentor junior staff in a defence/mission-critical environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum strong commercial FPGA experience
• Experience in defence, aerospace, radar or safety/mission-critical environments preferred
• Ability to obtain UK Security Clearance
• Role is hybrid and based in Southampton

Responsibilities

• Design and develop FPGA and SoC-based systems across the lifecycle
• Perform FPGA verification, testbench development and debugging
• Collaborate with embedded software and electronics teams
• Take designs through development, integration and test
• Mentor and support more junior engineers
• Contribute to technical decisions and system-level trade-offs

Skills

VHDL

FPGA design

SoC design

DSP

Video processing

High-speed data

Embedded software integration

Mentoring

Tools

Vivado

Xilinx devices

Job description

We're working with a growing UK engineering business developing advanced electronic systems used in real-world defence and mission-critical applications.

Following continued investment in their engineering capability, they're looking for several Senior FPGA Engineers to join the team in Southampton.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll be involved across the FPGA development lifecycle, working on technically challenging products involving areas such as video and image processing, high-speed data, signal processing and embedded systems.

You'll be joining a highly experienced engineering team with the opportunity to take real ownership of technical work, contribute to design decisions and support the development of less experienced engineers.

What you'll be working on:

• FPGA design and development using VHDL
• Developing and verifying FPGA and SoC-based systems
• Working with Xilinx devices and associated development tools such as Vivado
• Digital signal processing, video/image processing and high-speed data applications
• FPGA simulation, verification, testbench development and debugging
• Hardware/software integration and working closely with embedded software and electronics engineers
• Taking designs through development, integration and test
• Contributing to technical decisions and helping mentor more junior engineers

They're particularly interested in engineers with strong commercial FPGA experience rather than somebody who has only used FPGA technology academically.

Experience within defence, aerospace, radar, communications, video processing or another safety/mission-critical environment would be beneficial, although the underlying FPGA capability is the most important thing.

You'll be joining a business investing heavily in its UK engineering capability, with experienced FPGA engineers already within the organisation and a strong pipeline of new product development.

The role is hybrid and based from Southampton, although there may occasionally be travel to another UK engineering site.

Due to the nature of the work, candidates will need to be able to obtain UK Security Clearance