Senior​/Principal FPGA Engineer

Position: Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer
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

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