Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer

Tatton Recruitment
Portswood, Hampshire, United Kingdom
4 months ago
£88 ph

Salary

£88 ph

Seniority
Lead
Posted
20 Jan 2026 (4 months ago)

Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer

Edinburgh, Luton, Bristol, Southampton (Hybrid, 2 days from home)

circa £88 per hour + overtime

Contract position

Virtual interview

Mon–Fri

Certain Advantage is collaborating with a key client to recruit Senior / Principal FPGA Engineers who will be responsible for the design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

What will you be doing?

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

A couple of things you should know:

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.

Independent verification using VHDL

Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools

During an interview, you may be asked about:

Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B

Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM

Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs

Sounds like you? Apply now or WhatsApp/ring Lukas - (phone number removed) / (phone number removed)

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