FPGA Design Engineer

What are we looking for in our FPGA Design Engineer?

FPGA Design Engineer - Stevenage (Onsite) - 12 months - £55 -£65 per hour

We are seeking an experienced FPGA design and verification engineer (~4+ years), to support the development of our growing portfolio of complex FPGA projects. The current portfolio ranges from advanced signal processing systems (Image\Radio), core embedded processing systems, through to safety & security critical systems.
The candidate would be supported by the wider team and would have opportunity to help lead technical solutions and interact with other functions to help realize delivery of the project.

Responsibilities:

• An opportunity to tackle technically demanding projects, develop new skills.
• Opportunity to show that you share our key values of Innovation, Commitment, Integrity, Passion and Team Spirit
• Join a team full of desire and ambition to be the best we can.
• You will be part of a successful team working at the forefront of technology, developing new and innovative concepts for future products
• You will be involved in the design, development and proving of key products throughout the product lifecycle from concept to in service support.
• Architecture and Requirement definition. Working with hardware and system engineers to define the FPGA needs.
• Design implementation and test.
• Prepare and efficiently maintain design and test documentation.
  

• Competent VHDL skills.
• Competent verification skills where System Verilog would be an advantage, but not mandated.
• Candidates will need to demonstrate a proven track record of designing for Xilinx, Intel or Microsemi devices and mastery of associated tool chains.
• Candidates will have completed a significant number of complex FPGA designs using Xilinx, and/or Altera FPGA devices (including SoC configurations using Power PC or ARM cores) and have knowledge of the trends in FPGA design and technology.
• A thorough understanding of the use of design tools such as Xilinx EDK, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx XST, Vivado, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim is also Requirement.