FPGA Engineer

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Role: FPGA Engineers

Location: Malvern

Duration: 6 Months

Pay rates: £400 - £475 per day

SC Clearance

Overall Purpose of the Job

* Contribute to all stages in the specification, design, development, integration, test and certification, fielding and support of navigation and cryptographic devices, following a rigorous engineering lifecycle.

* Specify and develop FPGA/ASIC solutions

* Interact with other engineers working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver products and customer solutions.

Key Accountabilities

* Responsible to Project Design Authority for all firmware related activities

* Plans/structures work effectively, including breaking down problems into manageable work packages.

* Ability to accurately cost work and manage risk

* Produces written documentation (including presentation material) of technical work in accordance with Project requirements.

Challenges

* Rapid learning of current military-specific and civil secure technologies in support of research and products.

* Innovation in the application/integration of digital hardware technologies to build novel secure systems

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

* Ability to write and debug VHDL.

* Experience designing and implementing complex firmware solutions in CPLD and FPGA using ModelSim, Synplify, ISE.

* Experience of design and implementation of high-speed of digital processing solutions and systems in FPGA e.g. system-on-chip, embedded processors, high speed interfaces

* Experience of working in a rigorous engineering environment using configuration management and change management processes/tools.

* Ability to prepare and undertake test and verification of FPGA/ASIC

* Good degree in electronics, electrical engineering or similar

* Good verbal and written Technical English communications skills.

Desirable Experience

* Experience of GNSS, Galileo security chain and/or PRS receivers.

* Knowledge of RF and radio signal performance/propagation issues.

* Knowledge/experience and knowledge of crypto security design including crypto algorithms, anti-tamper technologies etc

* Experience of specifying, designing, verifying and testing ASICs

* Ability to engineer software to support system development/testing in appropriate languages including C++, C and assembly language.

* Experience using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and Expedition PCB.

* Experience of using DOORS.