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FPGA design Engineer
Wotton-under-Edge
Posted about 20 hours ago
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Job Description – Principal FPGA Design Engineer
Location
Wotton-under-Edge, UK
Working Arrangement
Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office
Key Responsibilities
- Lead FPGA architecture, design, and development from prototype through production.
- Develop and maintain VHDL/Verilog RTL, focusing on performance, reliability, resource optimization, and portability.
- Develop FPGA verification and testbenches using tools such as OSVVM/VUnit.
- Implement, debug, and verify FPGA designs on real hardware.
- Work with embedded algorithms, focusing on performance, accuracy, determinism, and numerical robustness.
- Manage requirements, traceability, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Support functional safety activities and certification where required.
- Produce technical documentation covering architecture, interfaces, timing, verification, and design decisions.
- Mentor and support graduates and apprentices.
- Collaborate across electronics, software, mechanical, and systems engineering teams.
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Key Requirements
- Degree in Electronic Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
- Strong experience across the FPGA design lifecycle.
- Excellent VHDL or Verilog RTL development experience.
- Experience with Intel/Altera, AMD/Xilinx, or Lattice FPGAs.
- Strong FPGA verification and testbench experience, ideally with OSVVM.
- Experience implementing and debugging FPGA designs on hardware.
- Strong understanding of:
- FPGA architecture and resource optimization
- Timing constraints and timing closure
- Digital logic and clock-domain crossings (CDC)
- Pipelining
- Embedded systems and microcontrollers
- Signal processing
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Desirable Skills
- C/C++, Assembly, or other embedded programming languages.
- OSVVM, VUnit, MATLAB, Python.
- Git and Azure DevOps.
- High-speed and low-power electronics, including analogue and digital design.
- Experience with IEC 61508 / ISO 13849 or other functional safety standards.
- Experience with continuous integration for FPGA verification.
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Skills
FPGA Architecture
VHDL
Verilog
RTL Development
OSVVM
VUnit
Timing Closure
Clock-Domain Crossing
Digital Logic
Signal Processing
Embedded Systems
C/C++
Python
MATLAB
Git
Azure DevOps