Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer

I.T. & Communications
Midlothian
May 15, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Senior / Principal FPGA Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, Luton, Bristol, Southampton (Hybrid, 2 days from home). Salary: approximately £88 per hour + overtime. Contract position. Virtual interview Mon-Fri.

Responsibilities

  • Creating innovative and robust VHDL based designs
  • Documenting and recording deliverables
  • Verifying FPGA designs
  • Ensuring configuration management and maintaining designs under revision control
  • Providing progress reports

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
  • Experience with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim/Questa, and Precision
  • Familiarity with Xilinx, Intel (Altera), or Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third party synthesis tools
  • Experience specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route
  • Independent verification using VHDL
  • Experience with FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
  • Knowledge of real time, embedded, safety critical FPGA development, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO 254 DAL A or B
  • Independent verification using SystemVerilog/UVM
  • Experience with embedded processor cores (e.g., ARM) in FPGA designs

Application

If this role aligns with your expertise, please apply directly or contact Lukas via WhatsApp/phone.

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