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Lead FPGA Engineer
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Lead FPGA Engineer – Hybrid
We’re looking for experienced FPGA Engineers to support the development and verification of complex electronic systems within an aerospace engineering environment.
This is a hands-on contract role covering FPGA design, implementation, and verification. We’re open to engineers with different strengths across the FPGA lifecycle. You don’t need to be equally experienced across design, verification, and certification to be relevant.
The key requirement is strong FPGA / VHDL engineering experience, ideally gained within aerospace, defence, or another safety-critical or high-integrity environment.
Skills & Experience
We’d be interested in speaking with experienced FPGA engineers with a strong background in either FPGA design/development, FPGA verification, or a combination of the two.
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- Strong commercial FPGA engineering experience
- VHDL / RTL design and/or verification experience
- FPGA development using Xilinx, Intel/Altera, or similar technologies
- Experience with FPGA simulation, debugging, and/or implementation
- Understanding of requirements-driven engineering and controlled development processes
- Experience working on complex electronic hardware
- Comfortable working within multidisciplinary electronics, systems, and software teams
Useful Experience:
- DO-254 or other safety-critical / high-integrity development standards
- Aerospace, defence, avionics, automotive, rail, or similarly regulated engineering
- Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, or equivalent
- QuestaSim / ModelSim
- Requirements decomposition and traceability
- Synthesis, constraints, and timing closure
- SystemVerilog / UVM
- Requirements-based FPGA verification
- Verification planning, coverage, and evidence generation
- Formal verification or coverage analysis
- Python, Tcl, or shell scripting
- Automated build and regression environments
- FPGA integration with processors, ADCs/DACs, communications interfaces, or other electronic hardware
- HIL / SIL or hardware-based integration and testing
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Additional Information
- Flexible around £75-90/hr Outside IR35
- Initial 6-month engagement
- Hybrid working – 2 days on-site, 3 days WFH
- Principal-level engineers looking to step up considered
- Candidates can be stronger in either FPGA design or FPGA verification
- Opportunity to work across complex, high-integrity aerospace electronics
- Strong potential for extension
- SC Clearance needed - Sole British nationals only due to project nature
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