FPGA Development Engineer

Job Title:     FPGA Development Engineer

Location:     Farnborough, Malvern, Bristol or Portsmouth

Package:     Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:   Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:       SF17607

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a FPGA Development Engineer where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a FPGA Development Engineer, you will support development activities across a range of technology areas including Radio Frequency/Optical communications, RADAR/Electronic Warfare, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, and Cyber/Crypto-Security with projects spanning all levels of maturity from concept generation through design, prototype, and production and through life support.

Day-to-day you will:

• Take ownership of the development and delivery of complex FPGA designs. This will include, planning and reporting, requirements capture, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and validation.
• Work in collaboration with the project team and other stakeholders, deliver to time cost and quality, delivering the best possible value for our customers.

This role is full-time with hybrid working arrangements available. 

Essential experience of the FPGA Development Engineer:

• A proven track record developing complex FPGA based systems, including design, implementation verification and validation.
• Ability to collaborate with domain experts to develop a conceptual solution (typically captured as a system model), and to translate it into an efficient FPGA implementation.
• Ability to thoroughly verify FPGA designs, to demonstrate that the requirements are met and that the implementation has been sufficiently exercised.  This will require detailed knowledge of testbench design; verification techniques included directed and constrained random testing, bus functional models, functional and code coverage tools/techniques.
• Ability to specify and configure System on Chip (SoC) designs, work with soft and hard core CPUs (e.g. Zynq, Microblaze, ARM, RISC-V, Micorblaze etc), develop and integrate peripherals, work with standard buses and interconnect (e.g. AXI, AHB wishbone etc) and specify software interfaces.

Qualifications for the FPGA Development Engineer:
We value difference and we do not have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Application Guidance
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.