MARS Recruitment
Lead FPGA Engineer
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Lead FPGA Engineer | Next-Gen Wireless Comms | Start up | Oxford / Hybrid | up to £100,000pa plus benefits
A once in a lifetime opportunity has arisen for a Lead FPGA Engineer to have a major impact in the development of next generation wireless communications, the biggest comms breakthrough in over 80 years!!! Our client is an early stage, fast paced, independently funded start up, with strong links to the University of Oxford. Led by a talented team with considerable sector experience and specialist subject knowledge, their mission is to enable safe and efficient communication systems which will ultimately protect our way of life. By joining them, the Lead FPGA Engineer will be seriously contributing to critical technology that will save lives and ensure our society remains safe in an ever-changing world.
Role Overview
This Lead FPGA Engineer role will focus on transforming advanced wireless communication algorithms into efficient, real-time FPGA implementations for an FPGA-accelerated SDR modem platform. Working closely with PHY, software, and systems engineers, you will help define the hardware-realisable architecture for our next-generation intelligent SDR modem, translating floating-point communications algorithms into high-performance fixed-point FPGA implementations suitable for field deployment. This is a hands-on role involving DSP architecture, FPGA implementation, optimisation, integration, verification, and system bring-up.
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Essential Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of industry experience developing FPGA-based DSP or communications systems
- Strong FPGA design experience using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
- Strong understanding of fixed-point arithmetic, quantisation effects, numerical precision, and hardware implementation trade-offs
- Experience implementing high-performance parallelised DSP algorithms on FPGA platforms
- Practical experience implementing one or more of:
- FFTs
- Fast Hadamard transforms
- Digital filtering
- Synchronisation algorithms
- Channel estimation
- Forward error correction
- Beamforming
- Packet-processing pipelines
Desirable
- Experience designing high-throughput streaming architectures using AXI-Stream or equivalent interfaces
- Experience analysing FPGA timing, resource utilisation, and system performance
- Familiarity with MATLAB, Python, or equivalent modelling environments for algorithm validation
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in laboratory environments
- Ability to work closely with DSP, software, systems, and RF engineers
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About Us
If you’re a Lead FPGA Engineer with an expertise in advanced wireless communication algorithms into efficient, real-time FPGA implementations for an FPGA-accelerated SDR modem platform, and you’re looking for a career defining role which will shape the future of wireless communications, then MARS would like to hear from you.
Equal Opportunities
MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
About MARS Recruitment
MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles).
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