Senior Firmware Engineer

6 days ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Quest Global Full time

QuEST Global is a pure play engineering solutions company with a proven track record that serves the product lifecycle needs of high technology companies. A pioneer in offshore product development engineering, QuEST Global is one of the largest engineering service providers that cater to diversified verticals. With its local-global model, QuEST Global combines physical proximity to the customer providing domain knowledge and ease of interaction; along with delivery from low cost locations that also provides easy resource ramp-up.


We have vacancies for Senior / Principal FPGA engineers to provide services to one of our major UK clients.


Role Overview:

The Senior / Principal FPGA engineer would be responsible for design and development of FPGA designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.


Job Responsibilities:

The FPGA engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide FPGA solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

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


Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:


Mandatory

  • At least 5 years’ experience of developing FPGA using VHDL or Verilog
  • Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
  • Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
  • Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
  • Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
  • Independent verification using VHDL
  • Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
  • De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
  • and system level
  • A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
  • Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
  • Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
  • Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead FPGA engineer & other disciplines
  • Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
  • Linux and scripting experience
  • Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation


Desirable

  • Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical FPGA, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B
  • Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
  • Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
  • Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
  • Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
  • Practical experience with agile methodology


Qualifications

  • Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject
  • UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance
  • Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage


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