FPGA Engineer - Ulverston / 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.
You'll be lucky enough to be based at a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ulverston, on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park. It's the ideal location to immerse yourself in the Cumbrian lifestyle and develop your career in an innovative and growing Underwater Technology market.
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 Engineer 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

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