Spectrum IT Recruitment
Senior Design Engineer
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We're looking for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join a team developing cutting-edge communications technology that will help shape the future of global connectivity.
This is an opportunity to work on next-generation 5G non-terrestrial networks developing digital hardware for satellite-based communications systems that will play a key role in delivering worldwide mobile coverage.
Working as part of a highly skilled engineering team, you'll be involved in the design and implementation of high-performance FPGA and ASIC solutions, taking products from architecture through to validation on the latest space-qualified hardware platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Translating system and algorithm requirements into RTL micro-architectures
- Designing and implementing RTL using Verilog/SystemVerilog for FPGA and ASIC targets
- Creating testbenches and supporting functional verification
- Deploying and validating designs on FPGA development platforms
- Optimising designs for performance, timing, power, and resource utilisation
- Producing high-quality technical documentation
- Collaborating across architecture, verification, physical implementation, and integration teams
- Contributing to continuous improvement of engineering processes and design methodologies
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Skills & Experience
- Strong RTL design experience using Verilog and/or SystemVerilog
- Proven background developing complex FPGA and ASIC designs
- Experience optimising digital hardware for high-throughput signal or data processing
- Knowledge of synthesis, timing analysis, and power optimisation techniques
- Strong understanding of simulation and synthesis using industry-standard EDA tools
- Experience producing technical design documentation
- Excellent collaboration skills with multidisciplinary engineering teams
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Desirable experience
- Communications or wireless signal processing
- Error correction, channel estimation, equalisation, or beamforming algorithms
- AMBA bus protocols
- UVM verification methodologies
- C++ or SystemC modelling
- High-speed interfaces such as PCIe or JESD
- Python or other scripting languages
- FPGA development using AMD/Xilinx devices
- ASIC backend flows and implementation tools
- Experience working within Agile or structured hardware development lifecycles
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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