Senior FPGA Engineer - Xilinx Power-Supply Controls

Diamond Light Source; Harwell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Relocation allowance

Hybrid working hours

Job summary

Diamond Light Source is seeking an FPGA Engineer or Senior FPGA Engineer to develop FPGA firmware for the Diamond-II upgrade project. You will work on Xilinx FPGA designs using Vivado, focusing on power-supply controllers, interfaces, and reliability.

The role is hybrid with 4 onsite days per week in Harwell, UK. Applicants should have strong HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog), FPGA simulation, and version control, with knowledge of C/C++/Python.

Qualifications

• HDL firmware development for FPGAs (Xilinx)
• Simulation, verification, and validation of FPGA code
• Code management and version control experience
• Laboratory-based testing and measurement techniques
• Programming languages including C/C++/Python
• Understanding of electronic circuit principles and SPICE tools

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and debug HDL code for FPGA firmware
• Design interfaces to ADCs, DACs, SRAM, Flash, sensors, and microcontrollers
• Test via simulation test benches and on-hardware validation
• Collaborate with hardware engineers and Control Group to optimise performance
• Review and document HDL code per Diamond standards
• Contribute to circuit design, SPICE, MATLAB simulations, PCB design, and prototype testing

Skills

HDL firmware development

VHDL

Verilog

FPGA design

C/C++/Python

simulation tools

version control

problem solving

team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/Science

PhD (advantage)

Tools

Vivado

LTspice/PSpice/Simscape

MATLAB

Git

SPI/PCB design tools

Job description

Diamond Light Source is seeking an FPGA Engineer or Senior FPGA Engineer to develop FPGA firmware for the Diamond-II upgrade project. You will work on Xilinx FPGA designs using Vivado, focusing on power-supply controllers, interfaces, and reliability.

The role is hybrid with 4 onsite days per week in Harwell, UK. Applicants should have strong HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog), FPGA simulation, and version control, with knowledge of C/C++/Python.