FPGA Design Engineer

FPGA Design Engineer

Location: Edinburgh

Rate: £45ph

Duration: 6 Months

A global aerospace and defence organisation specialising in complex electronic warfare systems are seeking a FPGA Design Engineer responsible for designing high speed digital Print Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, Microprocessor and high speed interconnect technologies.

Key Responsibilities - FPGA Design Engineer

• Designing high speed digital Printed Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, Microprocessor and high speed interconnect technologies;

• Working closely with and providing guidance to PCB layout engineers;

• Providing support to various disciplines and functions throughout the full hardware lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, and unit test; to integrating hardware within the target system; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to customer;

• Fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports and;

• Working closely with FPGA, Systems, Mechanical and Software engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems.

Skills & Qualifications - FPGA Design Engineer

• Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to Hardware designs. Schematic Capture using Mentor Graphics Dx Designer or equivalent

• Previous Hardware design of PCAs that utilise complex FPGA based designs;

• Applied knowledge of High speed serial communication protocols and architectures (e.g. PCIe, Ethernet, DDR3/4 etc.);

• Hands on experience of Hardware, Firmware & Software Integration of Micro Processor Based designs onto hardware platforms;

• Methodical approach to the full hardware design lifecycle, working to a structured hardware process;

• De-bugging and testing new designs and supporting module and system related test, verification and integration project phases as required by a development type program prior to system deliveries;

• High speed Signal Integrity and/or Power Integrity analysis would be beneficial and;

• Knowledge of FPGA/SW coding languages (VHDL, C, and Assembler) would be beneficial.

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