FPGA Engineer | Farnborough, UK (Hybrid) Location: Farnborough, United Kingdom Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days onsite Eligibility: Must hold or be able to obtain UK SC clearance Employment type: Permanent Overview A leading international technology organisation is expanding its UK engineering team to support growth across UK and European markets. The role sits within a secure engineering environment delivering programmable logic and embedded firmware solutions for cyber and information assurance focused products. You will join a multi-disciplinary team designing, developing and testing both standard products and bespoke secure digital design solutions. This is an end-to-end engineering role covering requirements, architecture, implementation, verification and system-level test. Key responsibilities Own delivery of the FPGA solution from requirements through development and into production Lead requirements elicitation and translate needs into implementable FPGA designs Define FPGA architecture in collaboration with the wider engineering team Work with project stakeholders to plan delivery and track progress against milestones Provide technical coordination for other FPGA engineers where required Manage interfaces with external FPGA/IP suppliers Develop testbenches and support verification and system integration testing Contribute to proposal inputs, estimation and technical white papers supporting future roadmaps (as needed) Essential skills and experience Proven experience taking FPGA designs through the full development lifecycle Strong FPGA design and verification capability using VHDL Experience optimising designs for performance and power Hands-on integration and debug of FPGA solutions in hardware Experience using configuration management/version control systems Desirable / beneficial experience Microchip FPGA experience and Libero toolchain exposure Verification with Modelsim/Questasim (UVM beneficial) Requirements capture/management (eg DOORS) SmartFusion, IGLOO or PolarFire device exposure PCIe / NVMe knowledge and FPGA implementation experience Xilinx or Altera devices and toolsets Integration and use of third-party IP Secure design principles (design for security) Embedded firmware development (C/C++/assembler) Understanding of cryptographic standards/algorithms Strong knowledge of FPGA integration within hardware platforms Clearance This position requires UK SC clearance (or eligibility and willingness to obtain it)