FPGA design Engineer

Job Description – Principal FPGA Design Engineer

Location: Wotton-under-Edge, UK

Working Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office

Key Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA architecture, design and development from prototype through production.
• Develop and maintain VHDL/Verilog RTL, focusing on performance, reliability, resource optimisation and portability.
• Develop FPGA verification and testbenches using tools such as OSVVM/VUnit.
• Implement, debug and verify FPGA designs on real hardware.
• Work with embedded algorithms, focusing on performance, accuracy, determinism and numerical robustness.
• Manage requirements, traceability, design reviews and code reviews.
• Support functional safety activities and certification where required.
• Produce technical documentation covering architecture, interfaces, timing, verification and design decisions.
• Mentor and support graduates and apprentices.
• Collaborate across electronics, software, mechanical and systems engineering teams.

Key Requirements

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Physics or a related discipline.
• Strong experience across the FPGA design lifecycle.
• Excellent VHDL or Verilog RTL development experience.
• Experience with Intel/Altera, AMD/Xilinx or Lattice FPGAs.
• Strong FPGA verification and testbench experience, ideally with OSVVM.
• Experience implementing and debugging FPGA designs on hardware.
• Strong understanding of:
• FPGA architecture and resource optimisation
• Timing constraints and timing closure
• Digital logic and clock-domain crossings (CDC)
• Pipelining
• Embedded systems and microcontrollers
• Signal processing

Desirable Skills

• C/C++, Assembly or other embedded programming languages.
• OSVVM, VUnit, MATLAB, Python.
• Git and Azure DevOps.
• High-speed and low-power electronics, including analogue and digital design.
• Experience with IEC 61508 / ISO 13849 or other functional safety standards.
• Experience with continuous integration for FPGA verification.