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FPGA VHDL Digital Design Engineer

Witney
7 months ago
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Role: R&D FPGA VHDL Digital Design Engineer

Location: Witney, oxford

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

Hybrid: 2-3 days remote work a week depending on design schedule and working on physical products

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000

Summary:

We are world leaders in the design, development, and manufacture of precision magnetic field sensors. We are now looking to recruit a Digital Design Engineer to join and complement our engineering design team within our R&D Department.

Responsibilities:

Take charge of the design, development and validation of digital electronic instrumentation and support equipment
Work within a multi-disciplinary team on design projects, working from initial concept through to production release
Support of existing digital products (24-bit Digitisers, Signal Analysers and Dataloggers)
Occasional liaison with customers and external test houses

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

BSc, BEng or equivalent in appropriate engineering or science discipline
Altera FPGA and VHDL
STM32, PIC, NXP, NIOS and Freescale Microcontrollers/processors
Digital Signal Processing
Data transmission - CAN, RS485/422/232, UART, USB, Ethernet, SPI, I2C

Desirable (but not essential):

MSc, MEng or equivalent in appropriate engineering discipline
Experience in working with magnetic field related instrumentation
Low noise analogue and mixed signal design of precision instrumentation
Design for manufacture and test
Design for EMC

Experience gained from one of the following industrial backgrounds would be an advantage:

Instrumentation and control
Measuring instruments and sensors

To apply:

Please send CV to

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