FPGA Engineer

February 19, 2026
£60 - £60
Urgent

Job Description

Contract: 6-9 months, outside IR35, rate DOE, Glasgow, 2 days on-site

Responsibilities:

  • Support in the design of Altera FPGA firmware for an embedded medical device
  • Work with an Agilex 5 SoC, focusing on the FPGA/fabric side
  • Implement high speed data protocols, potentially including LPDDR4x, serialised ADC data over LVDS, AXI bus
  • Write testbenches for FPGA design verification
  • Simulate and verify functionality of the design
  • Collaborate with the multidisciplinary technical team to reduce the technical design timeline
  • Documentation of design to meet requirements of ISO13485 (Quality management system for medical devices)

Essential Skills:

  • Knowledge of FPGA development, particularly Altera FPGAs
  • Quartus & Modelsim/Questasim
  • VHDL
  • Testbench design, both module and top-level
  • RTL and gate-level simulation of testbenches
  • Revision control systems, particularly Github

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