Field-Programme Gate Array (FPGA) Design Engineer

Location: Derby

Salary: £35,000 to £65,000 (depending on experience)

Our client, a world class innovator, plays a vital role in designing, manufacturing, supplying, and providing continuous support throughout the lifespan of nuclear propulsion products and systems. This contribution is crucial for sustaining the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet and overseeing the management throughout their entire lifecycle.

In a submarine’s role, you will work on diverse technical challenges throughout the product life cycle. Shape your career as an engineer, specialist, or leader, with full support for your technical development, including mentoring for chartered engineer status.

As an FPGA Engineer, you will become a part of the safety critical firmware development team, contributing across all design phases using agile SCRUM methods and employing state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided as needed, equipping you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures, designs, and HDL code for controls firmware applications crucial for safeguarding and monitoring nuclear propulsion plants.

Key Responsibilities:

You’ll adhere to a firmware development lifecycle based on DevOps principles to fulfil customer requirements by:

• Obtaining high-level firmware requirements using DOORS.
  
  
• Creating architectural designs.
  
  
• Identifying low level requirements and detailed designs.
  
  
• Writing VDL and Verilog HDL code using Sigasi Studio.
  
  
• Simultating HDL designs at unit, integration and system level using Mentor Graphics QuestaSIM.
  
  
• Conducting synthesis, place and route, and static timing analysis using Synopsis for Xilinx FPGAs.
  
  
• Creating Python scripts to automate processes.
  
  
• Utilising continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) toolsets.
  
  
• Implementing change control and configuration management with GIT.
  
  
• Engaging in problem-solving activities.
  
  
• Demonstrating adherence to processes and ensuring solution correctness.
  
  
• Improvement of firmware development process for cost, timescale reduction, and quality enhancement.
  
  
• Supporting process and technical audits.
  
  
• Collaborating with Software, Systems and Electronic teams.
  
  Requirements
  
  
• Degree Level or HND level in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
  
  
• Motivated and enthusiastic to become familiar with new techniques and tools.
  
  
• Experience in hardware engineering.
  
  
• Experience in digital electronics design.
  
  
• Experience in real-time systems
  
  
• Awareness of safety critical development constraints.
  
  Benefits:
  
  Embrace an inclusive, digital-first culture at this company, where a commitment to your development, continuous learning, and a multitude of career growth opportunities awaits.
  
  The comprehensive package includes outstanding developmental resources, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits such as:
  
  
• Bonus
  
  
• Training and Progression
  
  
• Pension
  
  
• Overtime
  
  
• Employee discounts
  
  Candidates will need to be eligible for SC clearance