FPGA VHDL Engineer - Edinburgh / Hybrid or Remote
Are your FPGA Engineer career goals not being met ? Are you working in a huge corporate, in a very large team on only a small module of an overall project ? Bored ? Are you frustrated by the bureaucracy, being micro managed ? Are you working in a dull, tired domain ?
As an FPGA Engineer you'll love working is a high-technology business dedicated to providing the most reliable imaging and acoustic equipment for use in underwater applications.
You'll enjoy a truly international customer base, their cutting edge technology has been adopted as the preferred choice in an expanding variety of sub-sea applications including deep sea infrastructure, renewables, clean energy, marine life tracking systems, dive search & recovery operations, oil & gas and scientific discovery. With the backing of its parent company they are now poised to launch more new products providing underwater solutions for their customers worldwide.
The role:
The FPGA VHDL Engineer / Firmware Engineer will play a key role within their multi-disciplinary small design team, which specialises in acoustics, imaging, vision, mechanical design, electronic hardware design, embedded software design and application software development.
The Firmware Engineer / FPGA Engineer will be responsible for developing solutions in either VHDL or Verilog to form part of a multichannel analogue and digital signal sampling system required to operate in real-time. Within this role, you'll be responsible for all stages of development, including writing test benches, simulation, synthesis, achieving timing closure and use of debugging tools.
FPGA Job responsibilities:
- New product inception and definition, working on 5 new Developments/Products
- Design and development of firmware (VHDL or Verilog) for high frequency real-time multi beam sonar equipment
- Writing test benches for simulation / testing
- Achieving timing closure
- Keeping the design team up to speed with the latest firmware development advancements.
Qualifications and experience:
- The successful candidate will ideally possess a degree or equivalent qualification within a relevant subject (ideally Electronics), however applicants with qualifications within other relevant disciplines will also be considered
- Previous experience in a similar role in a commercial environment with demonstrable achievements in HDL design, VHDL or Verilog
- Experience of working with Xilinx devices (Spartan, Artix, Kintex, Virtex, Ultrascale, Zynq, Ultrascale+) and Xilinx development platforms (Vivado, Vitis)
- The use of lab-based test and measurement equipment
- Experience in software and/or hardware development.
The benefits:
- Flexible working. 37.5 hours per week worked Mon-Fri with flexible start and finish times and hybrid-working or Fully Remote
- Annual bonus based on Company performance
- Death in service life assurance 6x salary
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay scheme and Income Protection insurance
- A generous pension scheme starting at 5.5% employer contributions
- 25 days holiday increasing with length of service
- Enhanced family leave entitlements
- Employer-funded health cash plan.
You'll enjoy solving a variety of technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other. You'll gain deeper job satisfaction, variety, better rewards and a great quality of life inside and outside of work. You'll like their excellent staff retention giving much worker autonomy, with a commitment to inclusion, diversity and work-life balance