FPGA Design Engineer

Your future team:

Are you ready to make an impact in a hi-tech industry for a high-profile organisation working in a high performing team on projects of national importance Assystem are recruiting for experienced Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design Engineers to work on our customers site in Derby. 

You will work within the safety critical firmware development team across all design phases of the firmware lifecycle.  The team uses agile SCRUM methods to develop high integrity firmware applications adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. 

Your missions:

You will follow a DevOps-based firmware development lifecycle to deliver customer requirements by:

Developing high-level firmware requirements using DOORS

Creating architectural designs

Defining low level requirements and detailed designs

Writing VHDL and Verilog HDL code using Sigasi Studio

Simulating HDL designs at unit integration and system level using Mentor Graphics QuestaSIM

Undertaking synthesis place and route and static timing analysis using Synopsis Synplify targeting Xilinx FPGAs

Developing Python scripts for process automation

Operating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) toolsets

Managing change control and configuration management using GIT

You will be expected to engage in continued improvement of our firmware development process for cost and timescale reduction and quality improvement

Why join the community of Switchers

As one of the Top 3 Nuclear Engineering companies in the world Assystem offer a competitive benefits package which includes:

25 days of annual leave bank holidays

8% company pension contributions

Healthcare cash-plan to get money back on dental medical physical care

Employee assistance programme including 24/7 access to free mental health support virtual gym classes and more

Get professional and industry membership fees paid for.

Qualifications :

Qualifications/Skills to be successful:

Qualified to Degree or HND level: In Electronics Engineering Computer Science or related discipline

Self-motivated and enthusiastic to become familiar with new techniques and tools

Experienced and talented programmable hardware engineer.

Experienced in digital electronics design

Experienced in programmable logic device design

Experienced in real-time systems

Awareness of safety-critical development constraints (e.g. IEC62566).

Additional Information :

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. 

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets the successful candidate has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non-ITAR country. 

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills talent and our peoples ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time