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