Sapien Engineering
FPGA Engineer

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Sapien Engineering are looking for multiple FPGA Engineers to join a defence consultancy on a contract basis.
These are initial 12 months contracts with the view to extend, they are inside IR35 paying up to £74 per hour.
Due to the nature of the work, on site working is required, 3 days a week from any of the following sites: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Bristol, Basildon or Southampton.
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Job requirements:
- VHDL
- Xilinx/Altera/Microsemi
- Full lifecycle design and development
- Modelsim/Questasim
- DxDesigner highly beneficial
- FPGA de-bugging
- Previous experience within defence/aerospace preferred


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