Senior FPGA Engineer

Zetron, Inc; Whiteley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days’ annual leave plus bank...

Company pension with matching up to 9%

Company bonus scheme

Flexible core working hours

Annual pay reviews

Personal training and development

Income protection

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Modern working environment in Whiteley

Job summary

DTC | A Codan Company in Whiteley is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join our engineering team. You will develop FPGA solutions for embedded communications products, collaborating with software, electronics, RF, and systems teams.

The role requires hands-on FPGA design and strong VHDL skills, with ownership of work and ability to guide designs from conception to product release. We value impact across defence, government, and broadcast applications, and offer a flexible benefits package and

Qualifications

• Hands-on FPGA design experience with strong VHDL skills.
• Senior role: own and drive design decisions, shaping early design through product release.
• Experience in communications or defence is helpful but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing FPGA functionality in VHDL
• Verifying designs through simulation and testing on real hardware
• Integrating FPGA designs with processors, embedded software and other hardware
• Investigating design and system level issues during development and testing
• Contributing to technical decisions from early design through to product release
• Improving and supporting FPGA designs in existing products

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Tools

Vivado

AMD/Xilinx devices

Job description

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DTC | A Codan Company develops advanced wireless communication technology used in some of the world’s most demanding environments.

From software defined radios and high performance wireless networks to communications for defence, uncrewed systems, government and broadcast applications, our engineers work on complex products where FPGA, software, electronics and RF come together.

We’re looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to join our engineering team in Whiteley. If you have strong FPGA design experience and are confident working in VHDL, we’re flexible about the industries, devices and tools you’ve worked with.

What you’ll be working on

You’ll develop FPGA solutions for our embedded communications products, working closely with engineers across software, electronics, RF and systems.

Your work will include:

• Designing and implementing FPGA functionality in VHDL
• Verifying designs through simulation and testing on real hardware
• Integrating FPGA designs with processors, embedded software and other hardware
• Investigating design and system level issues during development and testing
• Contributing to technical decisions from early design through to product release
• Improving and supporting FPGA designs in existing products

You’ll be able to see your designs running on physical products and understand how they contribute to the performance of the complete communication system.

What we’re looking for

The two things we’re particularly interested in are hands‑on FPGA design experience and strong VHDL skills. As this is a senior role, you should also be comfortable taking ownership of your work, solving complex problems and contributing your judgement to design discussions.

Beyond that, we’re open minded. You might have worked in communications, defence or another field entirely. You don’t need experience with our specific devices, products or applications to be considered.

Useful, but not essential

Experience in any of these areas would be helpful, but none is a requirement:

• AMD/Xilinx devices or Vivado
• Digital signal processing, RF or software defined radio
• High speed data paths or real-time systems
• Embedded C/C++, Python or embedded Linux
• MATLAB or similar modelling tools
• Automated testing, CI/CD or source control
• Board level hardware, schematics or laboratory test equipment

Why DTC?

Interesting engineering
You’ll work on sophisticated wireless products alongside specialists in embedded software, electronics, RF and signal processing.

Real products, real impact
Your designs will run in communication systems used across defence, government, uncrewed platforms and broadcast applications around the world.

Room to develop
You’ll have opportunities to deepen your FPGA expertise and build knowledge in new areas of communications technology.

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company pension with matching up to 9%
• Company bonus scheme
• Flexible core working hours
• Annual pay reviews
• Personal training and development
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Modern working environment in Whiteley

You’ll also be joining a global organisation with engineering and technology teams across the UK, USA, Denmark, Singapore, Dubai and Australia.

Security Clearance

Successful applicants will need to be willing and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.