Job Title: Senior FPGA Engineer

Location: Southampton

Salary: DOE

About the Company

My client is an exciting IP company that provides game-changing software and hardware acceleration for 5G mobile communications.

About the Role

• This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company on the South coast
• We are seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer with 10+ years of relevant industry experience to contribute to the development of our hardware solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Apply specialised skills and expertise to enable team to make the successful and timely delivery of projects
• Provide mentoring to aid the development of junior colleagues
• Lead the optimisation, synthesis and characterisation of FPGA solutions
• Support customers in the validation, synthesis and integration of FPGA solutions
• Design and develop support functionality to target IP solutions to FPGA hardware platforms
• Develop best practices procedures and design policies to improve IP quality of results.

 Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Degree qualified (or equivalent)
• 10+ years of experience in relevant field in the industry
• PCIe and DRAM high-speed interfacing with FPGA
• Experience of design and implementation of products using AXI4 or Avalon interfaces
• Experience of developing synthesis and implementation strategies from scratch
• Optimisation, synthesis, characterisation, validation and integration of FPGA solutions
• Proficiency in EDA tools (Intel Quartus Pro, Xilinx Vivado and/or Mentor)

Desirable:

• Experience of porting FPGA designs to ASIC targets
• Experience of ASIC synthesis and back-end processes
• Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
• Knowledge of communications signal processing algorithms (ideally error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming or another baseband component)

Personal Attributes

• Must be highly capable, motivated, enthusiastic, innovative and personable
• Should have hands-on experience of relevant industry tools, techniques and technology
• Should be a team player, with an approach to version control and documentation that enables others
• Should be presentable and with the commitment to build long term viable relationships with all stakeholders