Senior/Principal FPGA Engineer (SC Clearance Required)

Permanent

Role5 Days Onsite-

SC Clearance Required

8+Yrs Experience

Aerospace domain

Job Description

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

Desirable

Development of Real Time, Embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B

Independent verification using SystemVerilog/UVM

Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry

Experience of Embedded processor cores (eg ARM) in FPGA designs

• Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
• Practical experience with agile methodology

Qualifications

Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject

UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance

Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage