Gold Group Ltd
FPGA Engineer
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Job Title: FPGA Engineer
Location
Bristol – Hybrid 3+ days on-site per week
Role Type
Contract
Duration
12 months
Rate
£60.00 - £75.00 per hour – Inside IR35
Our client, an established engineering consultancy, require an experienced FPGA Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team in Bristol.
The FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.
UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance. Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage.
What the role of the FPGA Engineer entails:
- The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.
- Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
- Documenting and recording deliverables
- Verifying FPGA designs
- Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
- Providing progress reports
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What experience you need to be the successful FPGA Engineer:
- At least 5 years’ experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
- Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
- Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
- Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
- Independent verification using VHDL
- Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
- A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
- Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
- Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines
- Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
- Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
- De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware and system level
- Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
- Linux and scripting experience
- Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation
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