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.
Responsibilities
* 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
Work Experience
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
* Independent verification using VHDL
* Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
* A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
* Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities
* 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
* Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
* De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware and system level
* Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
* 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 (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
* Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
* Practical experience with agile methodology
Location
* Edinburgh, UK
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
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