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Senior FPGA Engineer
Job Details
- Contract Duration: 6 months
- Location: Newport
- Compensation: Up to £85 per hour Inside IR35
Key Requirements
- Design experience with Altera, Microsemi, or Xilinx
- Experience with VHDL
- Active SC clearance
About the Role
If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!
As the Senior FPGA Engineer, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.
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Key Responsibilities
- Analysing requirements, specifying and documenting the FPGA solution and work breakdown
- Preparing FPGA architectural and detailed designs and documentation
- FPGA design generation and implementation
- FPGA design verification
- Integration of FPGAs onto the target platform
- Providing FPGA technical support
- Controlling and reviewing the work of the members of the team
- Supporting the company FPGA development process and procedure updates
Your Skillset & Experience
- Proficient in the use of VHDL
- Proficient in the use of at least one simulation tool
- Proficient in the use of at least one FPGA synthesis tool
- Understanding of requirements capture, and of work package definition and estimation
- FPGA development process knowledge
- Fully versed in design methodologies for your field
- Recent design experience of devices from the following suppliers:
- Altera
- Microsemi
- Xilinx
- Desirable
- Recent experience of using several of the following tools/development environments:
- Altera Quartus II
- Mentor ModelSim
- MicroSemi Libero IDE
- Microsemi Libero SoC
- Xilinx Vivado
- Recent experience of using several of the following tools/development environments:


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