A Global Consultancy we are working with requires FPGA Engineers to join them on a permanent basis. The roles require you to work on-site 4 days per week at the site in Luton. Due to the nature of your work, you must be eligible for SC clearance (UK eyes only).

Role Overview:

The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

Job Responsibilities:

The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

* 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

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

* 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.

* Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements

* Independent verification using VHDL

* Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools

* De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
and system level

* A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software

* Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.

* Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations

* Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines

* Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills

* Linux and scripting experience

* Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation