Senior Firmware Engineer

Role Overview:

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 & 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 & other disciplines

Excellent communication (oral & written) & 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