
Senior Hardware Development Engineer – Digital FPGA
Picotech Ltd
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: St Neots • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £80,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the design and development of FPGA functionality from initial requirements through to VHDL implementation
- Develop digital logic to optimise data throughput and minimise latency
- Build comprehensive test benches and conduct in-system debugging
- Evaluate and select FPGAs for new designs balancing performance with cost
- Calculate, simulate, and prototype designs for performance and reliability
- Partner with Product Line team on project scoping and estimation
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and developing high performance solutions using VHDL or Verilog
- A strong grasp of digital and analogue hardware design principles
- Experience developing integrated, multi-layered PCB solutions
- Deep understanding of signal integrity, noise mitigation, and crosstalk management
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware faults using simulation
- Excellent translation skills of complex technical data for various stakeholders
- Detail focused with strong organisational skills to deliver high quality work within Agile timescales
- Experience with Vivado, ModelSim, or Git
- Scripting knowledge (Python/TCL)
Benefits
- Flexible holidays
- Access to holiday homes
- Profit Related Pay (PRP) bonus
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Free fruit and bean-to-cup coffee
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
VHDLVerilogdigital logic designFPGA designPCB designsignal integritynoise mitigationcrosstalk managementsimulationscripting
Soft skills
translation skillsorganizational skillsdetail orientedproblem solvingcommunication