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FPGA Engineer

  • Posted March 27, 2025
  • £500 - £700 per day
  • Luton
  • Contract

FPGA Engineer

SC Clearance + Sole UK National

Luton (3-4 days/week onsite)

£500 – £700/day DOE (Inside IR35)
12 Month Contact

Role details:

We’re partnering with a veteran-led engineering consultancy who specialise in defence solutions, they work alongside leading defence primes to drive innovation in critical military projects.

They are looking for a FPGA Engineer with full design lifecycle experience to help create advanced solutions for vital electronic countermeasure programs.

Responsibilities:

  • Firmware requirements capture and management.
  • FPGA design and analysis.
  • Production of documentation for other engineers and evidence for design reviews.
  • Development of FPGA test and FPGA integration plans.
  • Modification of existing firmware designs and test benches.

Requirements:

  • Using FPGA technologies especially from either Xilinx, Microsemi (Actel) or Lattice and their tools
  • Advanced verification techniques using either VHDL or System Verilog / UVM
  • Specifying complex timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA place and route
  • Ability to analyse system level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements
  • A methodical approach to the full firmware design lifecycle, working to a structured firmware process such as RTCA DO-254 or similar

Eligibility:

To be considered for the role, you must have active SC Clearance & Sole UK Nationality.

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