Description
An FPGA Design Engineer with recent experience in the UK defence environment is required for a long term contract assignment based in Stevenage.
Responsibilities:
* An opportunity to tackle technically demanding projects, develop new skills
* Opportunity to show that you share our key values of Innovation, Commitment, Integrity, Passion and Team Spirit
* Join a team full of desire and ambition to be the best we can.
* You will be part of a successful team working at the forefront of technology, developing new and innovative concepts for future products
* You will be involved in the design, development and proving of key products throughout the product life cycle from concept to in service support.
* Architecture and Requirement definition. Working with hardware and system engineers to define the FPGA needs.
* Design implementation and test.
* Prepare and efficiently maintain design and test documentation.
* Peer review support. Through sharing with others we grow as a team.
* Integration support. Working with systems, software and hardware engineers to ensure product performance. It only works when it works together.
* Preparing the future. Working on research topics to secure the technology of the future.
Skillset/experience required:
* Ideally we are looking for candidates that are Degree qualified (or equivalent) with significant experience.
* Competent VHDL skills.
* Competent verification skills where SystemVerilog would be an advantage, but not mandated.
* Candidates will need to demonstrate a proven track record of designing for Xilinx, Intel or Microsemi devices and mastery of associated tool chains.
* An agile team player with good verbal and written communication skills capable of operating in a multi-disciplinary team
* Candidates will have completed a significant number of complex FPGA designs using Xilinx, and/or Altera FPGA devices (including SoC configurations using Power PC or ARM cores) and have knowledge of the trends in FPGA design and technology.
* A thorough understanding of the use of design tools such as Xilinx EDK, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx XST, Vivado, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim is also Requirement.
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