FPGA Design Engineer

FPGA Design Engineer London, UK c£70k + benefits

This is an exciting and new opportunity for an experienced FPGA design engineer to join a start-up involved with the research, development and design of technologies used to enhance HPC, AI and ML networking.

Our clients technologies will revolutionise data centres. Their technologies will speed up training and inference while dramatically reducing energy consumption, supporting a sustainable future.

They are looking for experienced FPGA Engineers to develop a high-speed network interface card utilising SystemVerilog, etc. The FPGA design engineer will work iteratively, within a multi-skilled team of engineers, through a series of prototypes to ultimately deliver a production-grade solution. Responsibilities will include microarchitecture definition, implementation, and testing, as well as interfacing with software.

Experience of working on similar highspeed networking products for AI/ML, data storage or HPC networking applications would be advantageous.

Typical involvements: FPGA design engineer

• Microarchitecture definition in collaboration with the broader team
• Preparing detailed technical documentation and presentations to stakeholders
• RTL Implementation, synthesis, timing closure
• Unit verification planning and simulation testing using SystemVerilog
• Delivering and validating FPGA-based lab setups for customer trials

Skills & Experience required: FPGA design engineer

• A Bachelor or Master degree in electronics engineering, physics, or other relevant fields
• c3-5 years of relevant experience working within FPGA design
• Solid hands-on industry experience of FPGA design for network applications at 100Gbps and above
• Experience working with PCIe, CXL, RDMA, DDR4, and high-speed transceiver technologies. Also, Ethernet, IP and bare metal systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of clock domain crossing (CDC) techniques would be required
• Strong knowledge of FPGA tool flows (synthesis, partitioning, place & route, timing analysis)
• Excellent skills in SystemVerilog (primarily) and also Verilog or VHDL
• Scripting and automation, such as TCL and Python
• Experience using tools such as Questa, ModelSim, GHDL, Verilator and cocotb
• Experience using simulation, analysis and synthesis tools such as Quartus, Vivado or Vitis

Other skills / knowledge:

• Experience in PCIe driver development
• Experience with embedded systems, including soft processors (Nios/Microblaze/RISC V) and SoC programming
• Experience with high-performance FPGA devices: Intel Agilex 7 or Xilinx Versal Premium
• A humble attitude and good communication skills
• Ability to create an understanding of complex ideas, concepts and designs to a variety of audiences from multiple backgrounds

A strong and demonstrable interest in sustainable technologies, AI, ML and / or HPC would be preferred.

The FPGA design engineer opening is based onsite in central London, 2 days per week (min). Assistance can be granted to obtain working visas.