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FPGA Design Engineer with DSP ideally radar system design experience maximising multiple FPGAs. The ideal candidate will be at technical leadership level willing to unpack requirements, coach juniors, conduct design reviews and be hands on where needed to deliver working FPGA architecture that is easily implemented to a client environment.

Requirements

Hands on VHDL based FPGA Design experience to Senior or ideally Principal level.

Multiple FPGA architecture.

Digital Signal Processing, high speed, satellite communications, ideally radar experience.

Able to absorb, specify and champion high level requirements taking the time to appreciate and understand the application needs.

Responsibilities

Electronic design of advanced FPGAs, from requirements, preliminary specification, test, system certification to verified design implemented and running on target hardware.

Firmware

VHDL simulation, test bench design, implementation verification and debug using test equipment oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, signal generators, etc.

FPGA and VHDL Design Reviews.

Masters, Bachelors or PhD in relevant area from a good university

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