The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.
Job Responsibilities:
The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.
-Creating innovative and robust VHDL:based designs
-Documenting and recording deliverables
-Verifying FPGA designs
-Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
-Providing progress reports
Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
Mandatory
-At least 5 years' experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
-Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
-Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third:party synthesis tools
-Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
-Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
-Independent verification using VHDL
-Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
-De:bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration and verification at hardware
and system level
-A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
-Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
-Experience with High:Speed Serial protocols and implementations
-Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer and other disciplines
-Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
-Linux and scripting experience
-Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation
Desirable
-Development of real:time, embedded, safety:critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO:254 DAL A or B
-Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
-Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
-Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
-Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
-Practical experience with agile methodology
Qualifications
-Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM:based subject
-UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance
-Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage