Description
Job Role: FPGA Engineer
Location: Newport
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months
Salary/Rate: £350 - £400 Per Day
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: SC Clearance
FPGA Engineer - Contract - Newport - £350 - £400 Per Day
The FPGA Engineer is responsible for executing allocated FPGA Work Packages within agreed cost, time and quality constraints.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrating that the developed product meets all specified product and customer requirements
- 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
- Controlling and reviewing work of the members of their team (where a team exists)
- Supporting the company FPGA development process and procedure updates
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
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