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)