FPGA Engineer

FPGA Engineer

Duration: 6 months initial

Rate: £350 to £425 per day

IR35: Outside

Clearance: SC or SC eligible

Location: Worcestershire

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to all stages in the specification, design, development, integration, test and certification, fielding and support of navigation and cryptographic devices, following a rigorous engineering lifecycle
• Specify and develop FPGA/ASIC solutions
• Interact with other engineers working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver products and customer solutions
• Responsible to Project Design Authority for all firmware related activities
• Plans/structures work effectively, including breaking down problems into manageable work packages
• Ability to accurately cost work and manage risk
• Produces written documentation (including presentation material) of technical work in accordance with Project requirements
• Rapid learning of current military-specific and civil secure technologies in support of research and products
• Innovation in the application/integration of digital hardware technologies to build novel secure systems

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

• Ability to write and debug VHDL
• Experience designing and implementing complex firmware solutions in CPLD and FPGA using ModelSim, Synplify, ISE
• Experience of design and implementation of high-speed of digital processing solutions and systems in FPGA e.g. system-on-chip, embedded processors, high speed interfaces
• Experience of working in a rigorous engineering environment using configuration management and change management processes/tools
• Ability to prepare and undertake test and verification of FPGA/ASIC

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of GNSS, Galileo security chain and/or PRS receivers
• Knowledge of RF and radio signal performance/propagation issues
• Knowledge/experience and knowledge of crypto security design including crypto algorithms, anti-tamper technologies etc.
• Experience of specifying, designing, verifying and testing ASICs
• Ability to engineer software to support system development/testing in appropriate languages including C++, C and assembly language
• Experience using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and Expedition PCB
• Experience of using DOORS
• Ability to use supporting tools such as MatLab for solution modelling and verification