Senior FPGA Engineer
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🚀 FPGA Engineer (VHDL) | High-Speed Embedded Systems
📍 UK | Onsite in Staines
💼 Contract - Outside IR35
A leading advanced electronics engineering company is looking for a talented FPGA Engineer to join their growing R&D team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-speed embedded systems, developing FPGA firmware for cutting-edge sensing and signal processing applications.
You’ll be involved in the full development lifecycle, from early concept through verification and hardware demonstration to production.
🔧 The Role
As an FPGA Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing VHDL firmware for high-performance FPGA systems, working closely with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, software and production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing VHDL firmware for high-speed applications including sensor acquisition and signal processing
- Designing FPGA logic for embedded and high-performance systems
- Verification, testing and validation of FPGA firmware
🧠 Skills & Experience
We’re looking for engineers with a strong FPGA and embedded systems background:
- Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- FPGA/VHDL development experience
- Experience with FPGA vendors such as Xilinx and Lattice
- Experience with serial communication interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, RS232/485, CAN)
- Knowledge of high-speed protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, USB, Aurora or sFPDP
- Experience with hardware debugging and lab equipment
- Familiarity with schematic capture/simulation tools is beneficial not essential (Altium, Protel, pSPICE or similar)
- Some scripting/programming experience (e.g. Python) is beneficial
🤝 What They’re Looking For
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage and prioritise complex workloads
- A proactive approach to troubleshooting and development
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- A goal-focused mindset with strong attention to detail
💡 Why Apply?
- Work on advanced FPGA and high-speed electronic systems
- Be involved in full lifecycle product development
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary engineering team
- Opportunity to grow your expertise in cutting-edge FPGA technologies