Senior FPGA IP Solutions Architect – robotics

Altera Corporation; Marlow; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in Marlow, UK is seeking a Senior FPGA IP Solutions Engineer to design, verify, and deliver high-performance FPGA IP for robotics and automation. You will own RTL IP and HAL interfaces, work within a small, highly technical team, and help integrate reference designs with ROS2.

The role emphasizes RTL craftsmanship, timing closure, and platform integration using Quartus Prime, Platform Designer, and related tools, with collaboration across software and systems engineers.

Qualifications

• RTL design for FPGA in robotics/industrial solutions.
• Experience with RTL verification and simulation tools.
• Proven ability to meet timing and optimize resources on real FPGA designs.
• Familiarity with Quartus Prime and Platform Designer for integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize high-performance FPGA IP for robotics.
• Develop and maintain HAL/driver APIs exposing IP capabilities.
• Create testbenches, perform functional simulation and regression.
• Drive timing closure and CDC checks; support platform bring-up.
• Collaborate with software/systems teams on HW/SW co-design.

Skills

RTL Design

SystemVerilog

FPGA Architecture

HAL APIs

Simulation

Quartus Prime

Platform Designer

CDC/STA

CI/CD

ROS2

Education

EEE degree

MS in related field

Tools

ModelSim/Questa

VCS

SignalTap

Perforce

GitHub

Jenkins

TeamCity

Avalon/AXI

Job description

Altera Corporation in Marlow, UK is seeking a Senior FPGA IP Solutions Engineer to design, verify, and deliver high-performance FPGA IP for robotics and automation. You will own RTL IP and HAL interfaces, work within a small, highly technical team, and help integrate reference designs with ROS2.

The role emphasizes RTL craftsmanship, timing closure, and platform integration using Quartus Prime, Platform Designer, and related tools, with collaboration across software and systems engineers.