Senior FPGA Engineer

Description

Up To £85 Per Hour Umbrella / Up To £63.54 Per Hour PAYE

The Senior FPGA Engineer is responsible to the Head of Hardware Engineering for executing allocated FPGA Work Packages within agreed cost, time and quality constraints.

Responsibilities

The Senior FPGA Engineer is responsible for demonstrating that the developed product meets all specified product and customer requirements, by

? 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 work of the members of their team (where a team exists)

? supporting the company FPGA development process and procedure updates

Skill Set

Essential

• Must be proficient in the use of VHDL

• Must be proficient in the use of at least one simulation tool

• Must be proficient in the use of at least one FPGA synthesis tool

• Must have a good understanding of requirements capture, and of work package definition and estimation

• Must be highly self-motivated, articulate, with good verbal and written communications skills

• Must have good team working skills

• Must have excellent FPGA development process knowledge

• Must be an experienced engineer, fully versed in design methodologies for their field able to work xjnqpsq on their own, but providing regular reporting

• Must have recent design experience of devices from the following suppliers:

o Altera

o Microsemi

o Xilinx

• Candidate must be willing and able to obtain, and maintain, SC security clearance.

Desirable

• Desirable to have recent experience of using several of the following tools/development environments:

o Altera Quartus II

o Mentor ModelSim

o MicroSemi Libero IDE

o Microsemi Libero SoC

o Xilinx Vivado

Ad ID: 5419289065