FPGA Design Engineer

FPGA Design Engineer required to take initial design architecture, through to the formal validation and verification of the design.

The role will also encompass improvement activities (process, tools etc.) and may including activities such as operating as a panel member for Peer and Design reviews.

The successful candidate will have the below skills:
A thorough understanding of and completion of a number of complex FPGA designs using Xilinx, and/or Altera FPGA devices (including SoC configurations using Power PC or ARM cores).
Knowledge of Image processing and Safety related design in the context of FPGA's and the verification of such devices.
Knowledge of the trends in FPGA technologies.
CAE Design tools (Xilinx EDK, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx XST, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim).
Inherent drive to be part of gaining and spreading knowledge throughout the team to improve its medium/long term capability.
Ability to communicate through presentations, verbally and via written reports.
Strong personal abilities with a focus on and desire to achieve the delivery of tasks to schedule.
Candidates must be willing to undergo a security vetting procedure.