Senior FPGA Engineer: Real-Time SoC & CNN Acceleration

Avanti Recruitment Limited; Ely; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanti Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join a specialist engineering and R&D business in the UK. You will own FPGA architecture across high-speed data acquisition, SoC-FPGA integration, DSP, and future CNN acceleration.

You will work with Xilinx Zynq UltraScale or similar platforms, taking ownership of RTL development, AXI/DMA data paths, and embedded Linux integration to drive real-time processing and edge AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on RTL development experience in FPGA environments.
• Experience with SoC-FPGA platforms and integration.
• Strong knowledge of AXI, DMA and high-speed data paths.

Responsibilities

• Develop VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog for high-speed data paths.
• Handle ADC/LVDS data acquisition and data movement.
• Implement AXI interfaces and PS/PL integration.
• Manage DDR memory interfaces and streaming pipelines.
• Oversee clocking, timing closure and CDC.
• Develop FPGA DSP blocks and CNN acceleration as needed.
• Facilitate hardware bring-up and debugging.
• Integrate Embedded Linux (PetaLinux) on FPGA platforms.

Skills

RTL design

SoC-FPGA

AXI/DMA

Timing closure

FPGA DSP

Embedded Linux

Job description

Avanti Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join a specialist engineering and R&D business in the UK. You will own FPGA architecture across high-speed data acquisition, SoC-FPGA integration, DSP, and future CNN acceleration.

You will work with Xilinx Zynq UltraScale or similar platforms, taking ownership of RTL development, AXI/DMA data paths, and embedded Linux integration to drive real-time processing and edge AI capabilities.