Senior FPGA Engineer

Up To £85 Per Hour Umbrella / Up To £63.54 Per Hour PAYE

Responsibilities

The Senior FPGA Engineer is responsible for demonstrating that the developed product meets all specified product and customer requirements, by

• analysing requirements, specifying and documenting the FPGA solution and work breakdown
• preparing FPGA architectural and detailed designs and documentation
• FPGA design generation and implementation
• FPGA design verification
• integration of FPGAs onto the target platform
• providing FPGA technical support
• controlling and reviewing work of the members of their team (where a team exists)
• supporting the company FPGA development process and procedure updates

Skill Set Essential

• Must be proficient in the use of VHDL
• Must be proficient in the use of at least one simulation tool
• Must be proficient in the use of at least one FPGA synthesis tool
• Must have a good understanding of requirements capture, and of work package definition and estimation
• Must be highly self-motivated, articulate, with good verbal and written communications skills
• Must have good team working skills
• Must have excellent FPGA development process knowledge
• Must be an experienced engineer, fully versed in design methodologies for their field able to work on their own, but providing regular reporting
• Must have recent design experience of devices from the following suppliers:
  • Altera
  • Microsemi
  • Xilinx
• Candidate must be willing and able to obtain, and maintain, SC security clearance.

Desirable

• Desirable to have recent experience of using several of the following tools/development environments:
  • Altera Quartus II
  • Mentor ModelSim
  • MicroSemi Libero IDE
  • Microsemi Libero SoC
  • Xilinx Vivado