Senior/ Lead FPGA Engineer
Posted 4 days ago
- Bristol, South West England
- Any
- External
- Expires In 25 days
Job Description
The role entails working closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.
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- Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs \n
- Documenting and recording deliverables \n
- Verifying FPGA designs \n
- Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control \n
- Providing progress reports \n
Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
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- At least 5 years' experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog \n
- Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision \n
- Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools \n
- Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route. \n
- Independent verification using VHDL \n
- Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools \n
- A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software \n
- Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities. \n
- Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines \n
- Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills \n
- Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements \n
- De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware \n
- and system level \n
- Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations \n
- Linux and scripting experience \n
- Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation \n
Qualifications
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- Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject \n
- UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance \n
- Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage \n