FPGA Engineer

FPGA Engineer | Farnborough, UK (Hybrid)

Location: Farnborough, United Kingdom

Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days onsite

Eligibility: Must hold or be able to obtain UK SC clearance

Employment type: Permanent

Overview

A leading international technology organisation is expanding its UK engineering team to support growth across UK and European markets. The role sits within a secure engineering environment delivering programmable logic and embedded firmware solutions for cyber and information assurance focused products.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team designing, developing and testing both standard products and bespoke secure digital design solutions. This is an end-to-end engineering role covering requirements, architecture, implementation, verification and system-level test.

Key responsibilities

Own delivery of the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production

Lead requirements elicitation and translate needs into implementable FPGA designs

Define FPGA architecture in collaboration with the wider engineering team

Work with project stakeholders to plan delivery and track progress against milestones

Provide technical coordination for other FPGA engineers where required

Manage interfaces with external FPGA/IP suppliers

Develop testbenches and support verification and system integration testing

Contribute to proposal inputs, estimation and technical white papers supporting future roadmaps (as needed)

Essential skills and experience

Proven experience taking FPGA designs through the full development lifecycle

Strong FPGA design and verification capability using VHDL

Experience optimising designs for performance and power

Hands-on integration and debug of FPGA solutions in hardware

Experience using configuration management/version control systems

Desirable / beneficial experience

Microchip FPGA experience and Libero toolchain exposure

Verification with Modelsim/Questasim (UVM beneficial)

Requirements capture/management (eg DOORS)

SmartFusion, IGLOO or PolarFire device exposure

PCIe / NVMe knowledge and FPGA implementation experience

Xilinx or Altera devices and toolsets

Integration and use of third-party IP

Secure design principles (design for security)

Embedded firmware development (C/C++/assembler)

Understanding of cryptographic standards/algorithms

Strong knowledge of FPGA integration within hardware platforms

Clearance

This position requires UK SC clearance (or eligibility and willingness to obtain it)