Principal Fpga Design Engineer

Principal FPGA Design Engineer
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Permanent -£48,000 – £84,000+ Excellent Package

My client is a market leading manufacturer technology for defence applications. Due to continued and sustained growth they are currently looking to add a Principal FPGA Design Engineer to the Electronic Design Function on a permanent basis.

The Electronic Design Function is responsible for the design and delivery of Electronic Sub-systems. The successful applicant will have a solid background in Electronics and have the ability to manage technical individuals. Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the products you must be able to obtain SC Clearance.

The FPGA design team undertake the whole of the development process from negotiation of requirements and initial design architecture, through to the formal validation and verification of the design. Many designs have demanding safety requirements so engineers must be able to rigorously verify their designs and demonstrate this to the Safety Officers.

The Principal Engineer Role is demanding and will encompass interfaces to other functions (e.g. Software) and also directly to the project leaders who are the primary customers.
The role will also encompass improvement activities (process, tools etc..) and may including activities such as operating as a panel member for Peer and Design reviews.

Qualifications / Experience:
Ideally degree qualified or equivalent
A thorough understanding of and completion of a number of complex FPGA designs using Xilinx, and/or Altera FPGA devices (including SoC configurations using Power PC or ARM cores)
Knowledge of Image processing and Safety related design in the context of FPGA’s and the verification of such devices
Knowledge of the trends in FPGA technologies
CAE Design tools (Xilinx EDK, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx XST, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim)
Inherent drive to be part of gaining and spreading knowledge throughout the team to improve its medium/long term capability
Ability to communicate through presentations, verbally and via written reports
Strong personal abilities with a focus on and desire to achieve the delivery of tasks to schedule

Commutable from: Stevenage, Bedford, Milton Keynes, London, Cambridge, Braintree, Luton, Aylesbury

Key Words:
Electronic, Sub-System, Equipment, Design, Principal, Defence, SC, FPGA, Xilinx, VHDL

For more information or to apply please contact;
Simon Allgrove –