Senior FPGA Engineer – Secure Digital Design

Holt Executive; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Holt Executive is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to join a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary engineering team working on innovative cyber and information assurance technologies. You’ll contribute to the design, development, and testing of secure digital solutions used across critical communication and defence environments.

This role offers the chance to work on complex FPGA designs, combining industry-standard and custom interfaces, and to be involved across the full engineering lifecycle,

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering FPGA designs through the full development lifecycle.
• Strong VHDL design and verification skills.
• Experience optimising designs for performance and power consumption.
• Hands-on experience integrating and debugging FPGA solutions in hardware.
• Familiarity with configuration management systems.
• Experience with Microchip devices and Libero (advantageous).
• Verification experience using ModelSim/QuestaSim (UVM beneficial).

Responsibilities

• Own the FPGA solution from requirements through to development and production.
• Lead requirements elicitation and translate them into FPGA implementations.
• Define FPGA architecture in collaboration with the wider development team.
• Work with the Project Manager to plan, track and deliver against agreed schedules.
• Coordinate other FPGA engineers on specific design activities (if needed).
• Interface with FPGA vendors and third‑party IP suppliers.
• Develop test benches and perform system‑level testing.
• Support proposal preparation, estimation activities, and contribute to technical white papers.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

Verification (ModelSim/QuestaSim)

Power/performance optimization

Hardware debugging

CM tools

Libero (Microchip)

Third-party IP integration

Tools

ModelSim/QuestaSim

Libero

Job description

Holt Executive is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to join a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary engineering team working on innovative cyber and information assurance technologies. You’ll contribute to the design, development, and testing of secure digital solutions used across critical communication and defence environments.

This role offers the chance to work on complex FPGA designs, combining industry-standard and custom interfaces, and to be involved across the full engineering lifecycle,