Hardware Engineer

• In this position, you will work on design and implementing FPGA test and simulation best practices, supporting the effective delivery of reliable and verified quantum control systems.
• You’ll have the opportunity to own, architect, and develop critical simulation infrastructure, contributing directly to the success of the FPGA team.
• Architect, develop, and maintain advanced UVM/SystemVerilog verification environments for complex FPGA designs.
• Define and execute comprehensive verification plans, including constrained-random testing, functional coverage, and code coverage analysis.
• Collaborate with RTL design engineers to debug issues, identify root causes, and ensure high-quality design implementation.
• Develop and maintain automated regression suites and continuous integration pipelines to ensure design stability throughout the development lifecycle.

Senior FPGA Verification Engineer

• Support the design, integration, testing, and validation of superconducting quantum processors.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop next-generation quantum hardware.
• Analyze performance data and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with cryogenic, electronics, firmware, and software teams.
• Maintain engineering records and technical documentation.
• Participate in design reviews and technical assessments.

Quantum Hardware Engineer

• Provide technical leadership for the development of advanced monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions.
• Own the system and hardware architecture for complex embedded products.
• Define system-level requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical strategies.
• Allocate requirements across hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test disciplines.
• Partner closely with Firmware and Software Architects to ensure alignment of architectures.
• Drive system-level trade-off decisions involving performance, reliability, accuracy, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define sensing, signal acquisition, processing, communications, timing, storage, and power architectures for complex embedded systems.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical governance activities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop platform strategies that maximize technology reuse across multiple product families.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, and product enhancement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through standards and best practices.

Hardware Architect

• Design, implement and verify complex FPGA logic using SystemVerilog for high-performance hardware applications.
• Develop scalable RTL, high-speed interfaces and DSP pipelines for ADCs, DACs, memory devices and RF SoC platforms.
• Optimise FPGA designs for deterministic timing, timing closure, multi-clock domain synchronisation and resource utilisation.
• Perform FPGA verification, debugging, laboratory integration and system-level validation against technical requirements.
• Define communication, synchronisation and data transfer interfaces across distributed hardware systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and support supplier and external development activities where required.
• Produce clear FPGA architecture, interface and implementation documentation to support traceability and long-term maintainability.

Contract FPGA Engineer

• Develop and deliver electronic hardware designs (analogue, digital, FPGA/PLD) in accordance with DO-254 processes and objectives
• Produce and maintain hardware lifecycle artefacts, including requirements, design documentation, integration plans, and verification evidence
• Participate in all phases of the hardware development lifecycle, including requirements capture, design, implementation, integration, and verification
• Define and execute hardware verification and validation activities, ensuring compliance with certification requirements
• Ensure full traceability between hardware requirements, design outputs, and verification activities
• Support the development of verification strategies, including test plans and procedures for hardware qualification
• Collaborate with software, systems, and safety engineering teams to ensure integrated system performance and compliance
• Identify and resolve hardware defects and anomalies, ensuring robust and reliable designs
• Support certification activities, including preparation of compliance documentation and interaction with certification authorities
• Participate in design reviews, audits, and peer reviews, ensuring adherence to DO-254 standards and best practices
• Contribute to configuration management and change control, ensuring integrity of hardware baselines

Hardware Engineer, DO-254 experience

• Concept development for complex functions and systems.
• FPGA design and analysis.
• Production of material for design reviews.
• Development of test planning, integration and design verification.
• Ensure that all firmware designs follow the company firmware process.

Firmware/FPGA Engineer – All Levels

• Translate complex probabilistic algorithms into FPGA RTL
• Design and implement custom digital logic using VHDL
• Architect data acquisition pipelines interfacing with the analogue front end
• Work closely with hardware and software engineers to develop high-level system architecture
• Develop rigorous testbenches and simulations
• Analyse and optimise performance, timing closure, power consumption, and resource utilisation

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