FPGA Design Engineer

Job Title: FPGA Design Engineer

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 6-Months (Convert to permanent after) 

Location: Cambridge or Bristol 

Candidates are required to do hybrid working in one of Cambridge or Bristol.

Our client make hardware-accelerated architecture enables real-time transactional AI at scale, eliminating bottlenecks in data-intensive environments.

Main Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and verify FPGA modules in Verilog/SystemVerilog and VHDL

Translate novel functional computing models into optimised RTL architectures

Implement high-throughput, pipelined digital logic and memory interfaces

Contribute to simulation, synthesis, debug, and validation of designs on Altera Agilex FPGAs and/or AMD Xilinx Versal

Collaborate on architectural evaluation of latency, power, and scalability

Write clean, maintainable RTL and contribute to documentation, DFT/DFM, and version control workflows

Key Requirements:

Minimum 7 years of post-graduate experience in digital hardware design (FPGA/ASIC) and Verilog/SystemVerilog experience (or 15 years total experience with strong VHDL background)

High-level logic synthesis and simulation tools

Hands-on experience with Intel Quartus Prime Pro toolchain

RTL design in Verilog/SystemVerilog and/or VHDL

Tech Stack:

Quartus Prime Pro, Vivado, ModelSim, Questa

Verilog, SystemVerilog

C, C++, Python, Haskell, Erlang, TCL

Git, Jira

Desirables:

PCI3 Gen 6 experience

Experience with Intel/Altera Agilex 5E FPGAs

VHDL

Exposure to compute-in-memory, functional or dataflow architectures

UVM or equivalent verification experience

Please get in touch with daniel@microtech-global.com to hear more about this incredible position