FPGA Engineer

FPGA Engineer | Farnborough, UK (Hybrid)
Location: Farnborough, United Kingdom
Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days onsite
Eligibility: Must hold or be able to obtain UK SC clearance
Employment type: Permanent

Overview
A leading international technology organisation is expanding its UK engineering team to support growth across UK and European markets. The role sits within a secure engineering environment delivering programmable logic and embedded firmware solutions for cyber and information assurance focused products.
You will join a multi-disciplinary team designing, developing and testing both standard products and bespoke secure digital design solutions. This is an end-to-end engineering role covering requirements, architecture, implementation, verification and system-level test.

Key responsibilities

• Own delivery of the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production
• Lead requirements elicitation and translate needs into implementable FPGA designs
• Define FPGA architecture in collaboration with the wider engineering team
• Work with project stakeholders to plan delivery and track progress against milestones
• Provide technical coordination for other FPGA engineers where required
• Manage interfaces with external FPGA/IP suppliers
• Develop testbenches and support verification and system integration testing
• Contribute to proposal inputs, estimation and technical white papers supporting future roadmaps (as needed)

Essential skills and experience

• Proven experience taking FPGA designs through the full development lifecycle
• Strong FPGA design and verification capability using VHDL
• Experience optimising designs for performance and power
• Hands-on integration and debug of FPGA solutions in hardware
• Experience using configuration management/version control systems

Desirable / beneficial experience

• Microchip FPGA experience and Libero toolchain exposure
• Verification with Modelsim/Questasim (UVM beneficial)
• Requirements capture/management (eg DOORS)
• SmartFusion, IGLOO or PolarFire device exposure
• PCIe / NVMe knowledge and FPGA implementation experience
• Xilinx or Altera devices and toolsets
• Integration and use of third-party IP
• Secure design principles (design for security)
• Embedded firmware development (C/C++/assembler)
• Understanding of cryptographic standards/algorithms
• Strong knowledge of FPGA integration within hardware platforms

Clearance
This position requires UK SC clearance (or eligibility and willingness to obtain it).