Senior FPGA Design Engineer

We are currently seeking a Senior FPGA Design Engineer ( Digital Electronics Engineer / Hardware Design Engineer ) to join our clients business based in Enfield Middlesex.

looking for a proactive Senior FPGA Engineer to join our growing team to play an active role in developing our exciting new generation of Radar Sensor products. The successful candidate will work both individually and within small teams to conceive and deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems.

The successful candidate will use Xilinx Vivado, ISE, VHDL, Modelsim tools to develop high speed SoC FPGA designs operating over multiple clock domains with several high-speed board-to-board interfaces.

The Senior FPGA Design Engineer tasks include:

• Working with a broad range of functionality from Ethernet, DDR, Aurora and DSP/Filters.
• High speed DSP to extract targets of interest from complex background of radar returns, including functions to enhance the target detection and clutter rejection.
• Development to bring up the FPGA/board and interfacing to peripherals.
• Control of hardware to transmit and receive RF transmissions.
• Decomposition of system or product requirements into an implementable FPGA architecture.
• Employing strong design lifecycle from initial concept, through requirements and design reviews onto implementation and testing leading to in-service use and support.
• Work closely with other engineering disciplines (such as Embedded Software Engineers, R&D and Systems) to deliver successful product solutions.
• Use high quality test strategies to giving coverage for design proving, development regression testing and system manufacture test.
• Take part in design and code Peer Reviews.
• Support team mates and give mentoring to junior members of the team.

Required skills:

VHDL, High-speed timing closure, problem solving.

5 or more years' experience working on FPGA designs

Proven track record of producing designs on time and within budget.

Desirable skills:

Xilinx Vivado/ISE, tcl, Verilog. Experience with git, Bitbucket (or similar), CI, embedded software & Linux, bench test equipment experience.

Working from home is possible for two days per week.

Please send us your CV if interested in applying and seeing the benefits package