FPGA Engineer

Wales  ‐ Onsite
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Description

FPGA Engineer - Contract - South Wales - £300 - £400 per day

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

Key Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • Supporting the company FPGA development process and procedure updates
  • Technical design decisions are made within the context of known practices, established precedents and acquired technical expertise. The cost/benefits of design possibilities are understood, and that judgement calls can be made based on them
  • The support of the design and development of critical components where decisions may have a significant impact on project timescales
  • Customer liaison, by representing Clients Defence and Space on project related technical matters at Stakeholder meetings
  • Design and Development by taking a technical role as a Prime on a critical component where necessary
  • Technical interface to Customers
  • Effective collaboration with other engineering disciplines to agree specifications and to carry out integration and test
  • Co-ordinate own time management with regard to project task milestones
  • The focus of the job is Operational - delivery of project funded Work Packages
  • Analytical - To identify and isolate errors in the FPGA or integrated target platform, their likely causes and solutions
  • Ingenuity - To work on his/her own on a complete FPGA design from concept to delivery

Skills/Experiences:

Essential Experience

  • Must have experience of FPGA design & implementation for secure communications equipment or equivalent
  • Must have excellent FPGA development process knowledge
  • Must be an experienced engineer, fully versed in design methodologies for their field able to work on their own, but providing regular reporting
  • Must have recent design experience of several of the following device families:
    • Altera: Cyclone III, Cyclone V, Stratix II,
    • Lattice: ECP3
    • Microsemi: ProAsicPLUS, SmartFusion 2
    • Xilinx: Kintex 7
  • Must have recent experience of using several of the following tools/development environments:
    • Altera Quartus II
    • Lattice Diamond
    • Mentor HDL Designer
    • Mentor ModelSim
    • MicroSemi Libero IDE
    • Microsemi Libero SoC
    • Xilinx Vivado

Essential Skills

  • 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

Desirable Skills

  • Experience of FPGA development for cryptographic systems using UK approved cryptographic design methodologies

RECOMMEND A FRIEND: If you have professional friends/colleagues who would be interested in one of our roles and our excellent levels of service too, we'd like to recognise your recommendations with a 'thank you' of our own. For every colleague you refer who then starts a role through Datasource either Contract or Permanent, we will send you £300!

You will be required to hold a minimum of SC security clearance. If you do not hold an active SC clearance please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.

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Start date
ASAP
From
Datasource Computer Employment
Published at
05.02.2016
Project ID:
1064702
Contract type
Freelance
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