FPGA Design Engineer

Polytec Personnel Ltd
Waterbeach, United Kingdom
2 months ago
Posted
14 Mar 2026 (2 months ago)

Location: Cambridge (CB25)

Duration: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week, flexible working, including up to 3 days per week working from home

Salary: Competitive

Job Reference: 36054

We are seeking an experienced FPGA Design Engineer to join our client's expanding development team, based a few miles north of Cambridge. You will be working on high performance products used globally across defence, industrial and security applications.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the development of reusable FPGA modules to support a broad product range

- Work collaboratively with hardware, software, and mechanical engineering teams to bring new technology to market

- Write timing constraints, interpret timing reports and adjust designs to ensure timing closure

- Bring value with experience in Python based verification frameworks, such as cocotb (highly advantageous)

Requirements:

- Strong knowledge of SystemVerilog

- Experience with Python

- Proven background in RTL verification

- Ability to write and validate timing constraints

- Understanding of low power design principles

- Experience writing module specifications and reviewing technical documentation

- Code and documentation review to established standards

- Familiarity with:

* Linux command line

* Version control systems (SVN or Git)

* Markdown

- Commitment to engineering best practice and high quality FPGA development

Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Please contact us as soon as possible for more details or apply below

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