Senior FPGA IP Solutions Engineer – Robotics Technology

Altera is seeking a talented Senior FPGA IP Solutions Engineer to join the Robotics Technology Group in Marlow, UK. This hands-on role focuses on the design, verification, and delivery of high-performance FPGA IP and solutions that enable next-generation robotics and industrial automation systems.

Altera is seeking a talented Senior FPGA IP Solutions Engineer to join the Robotics Technology Group in Marlow, UK. This hands-on role focuses on the design, verification, and delivery of high-performance FPGA IP and solutions that enable next-generation robotics and industrial automation systems.

Working within a small, highly technical team, you will develop reusable RTL IP for sensor ingestion, data pre-processing, fusion pipelines, and real-time compute accelerators for robotics use cases. Your primary ownership is the RTL IP and the low-level software interface (HAL / driver API) that exposes it—covering micro-architecture, RTL implementation, simulation, timing closure, and Quartus Prime / Platform Designer integration. You will also maintain a clear awareness of how that IP fits into the broader system and solution stack, collaborating with software and systems engineers on reference designs and customer-facing robotics platforms.

This role emphasizes deep FPGA IP and HAL craftsmanship—high-performance RTL, verification and simulation, and clean low-level APIs—while requiring enough system-level awareness to integrate cleanly into end-to-end robotics solutions.

• Design, implement, and optimize high-performance soft IP in Verilog/System Verilog for robotics and industrial solutions
• Define and maintain low-level HAL / driver APIs that expose IP capabilities to embedded and host software
• Develop RTL for sensor ingestion, pre-processing, fusion, and mathematical / DSP algorithms mapped efficiently to FPGA fabric
• Apply strong FPGA architecture awareness to drive resource allocation (ALMs, DSP, memory), Fmax, and power/performance trade-offs
• Integrate IP into system designs using Quartus Prime and Platform Designer (Avalon / AXI interconnects, streaming and memory-mapped fabrics), with awareness of full-stack solution integration

• Write and maintain test benches; perform functional simulation and regression of IP and subsystems
• Drive static timing analysis (STA), timing closure, clock-domain crossing (CDC) correctness, and constraint quality
• Debug designs through simulation, Signal Tap / on-chip debug, and lab bring-up as required
• Contribute to design examples, simulation models, and technical documentation for internal and customer use

• Work effectively within engineering infrastructure including Perforce, Git Hub, Jenkins, and Team City
• Support continuous integration, regression flows, and release quality for IP and reference designs
• Collaborate with software, systems, and applications engineers on HW/SW co-design and platform integration, including robotics software stacks where applicable (e.g. ROS2)
• Support platform bring-up, validation, and resolution of customer or internal technical issues

• Min 10 + Years experience with BSc / MSc (or equivalent) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (EEE), Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Strong production experience in RTL design (Verilog and/or System Verilog) targeting FPGAs
• Hands-on experience with RTL verification and simulation (e.g. Model Sim/Questa, VCS, or equivalent)
• Proven ability to close timing and optimize resource utilization on real FPGA designs
• Working knowledge of Quartus Prime and Platform Designer (or equivalent FPGA toolchain and…