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Senior​/Principal FPGA Engineer

Job in Portswood, Southampton, Hampshire County, SO15, England, UK
Listing for: Certain Advantage
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-26
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 88 GBP Hourly GBP 88.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer
Location: Portswood

Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer
Edinburgh, Luton, Bristol, Southampton (Hybrid, 2 days from home)
circa £88 per hour + overtime
Contract position
Virtual interview
Mon–Fri

Certain Advantage is collaborating with a key client to recruit Senior / Principal FPGA Engineers who will be responsible for the design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

What will you be doing?

Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
Documenting and recording deliverables
Verifying FPGA designs
Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
Providing progress reports
A couple of things you should know:

At least 5 years’ experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, Model Sim / Questa and Precision
Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
Independent verification using VHDL

Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
During an interview, you may be asked about:

Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B
Independent verification using System Verilog / UVM

Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs

Sounds like you? Apply now or Whats App/ring Lukas - (phone number removed) / (phone number removed)

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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