Electronic FPGA EngineerLocation : Cambridge, CB4 0WNSalary : Competitive, DOE + Excellent BenefitsContract : Permanent, Full-TimeHours : Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week (8:00am to 6:00pm), with occasional overtime and weekend working. This is an on-site role.Benefits : Annual bonus scheme, Private healthcare, Co-financed gym membership, Life insurance, Additional annual leave through our Company Day, Ongoing learning and development opportunitiesAt HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, we’re helping to keep the world connected.Our innovative optical networking solutions enable the seamless movement of data across global communications infrastructure, supporting some of the world’s most demanding data and communications networks.We’re looking for an experienced Electronic FPGA Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Cambridge.This is an exciting opportunity to work on advanced FPGA-based solutions, taking designs from concept through to validated hardware and contributing to products that sit at the heart of next-generation connectivity.If you’re passionate about digital design, enjoy solving complex hardware challenges, and thrive in a collaborative engineering environment, we’d love to hear from you.What you’ll be doingAs an Electronic FPGA Engineer, you’ll play a key role in the design, development, verification and validation of FPGA solutions for our optical networking products.Designing and implementing FPGA logic in VHDL for Xilinx Artix-7 devices using VivadoDeveloping reliable finite state machines (FSMs) to control hardware interfaces and communication protocolsCreating and maintaining low-level driver logic for interfaces including I?;C and SPISupporting requirements capture, architecture definition and module-level design specificationsContributing to Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacture (DFM) considerations throughout the development lifecycleWriting and maintaining test benches, including self-checking test environments where appropriatePerforming functional and timing simulations to verify FPGA designsDocumenting verification activities and validation resultsEnsuring robust and reliable operation through rigorous testing and review processesSupporting hardware bring-up, validation and system integration activitiesUsing laboratory equipment such as logic analysers and oscilloscopes for debugging and performance verificationInvestigating timing, interface and constraint-related issuesWorking closely with electronics and software engineers to resolve complex technical challengesManaging XDC constraints, clocking strategies, reset architectures and clock domain crossing analysisAchieving timing closure and generating production-ready FPGA bitstreamsApplying best practices for synchronous design, metastability mitigation and design reliabilityMaintaining configuration management and release processes using version control toolsProducing high-quality technical documentation.What we’re looking forYou’ll be a practical FPGA engineer with strong technical expertise and a passion for delivering reliable, high-quality products.In order to be successful in this role it is essential that you have:Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experienceStrong hands-on experience developing and verifying FPGA designs using VHDLProven experience working with Xilinx Artix-7 devicesStrong knowledge of Vivado including: Project creation and management, Synthesis, Place and route, Constraints management, Timing analysis and closure, Bitstream generation, Experience designing deterministic finite state machines (FSMs)Experience implementing and validating embedded communication interfaces including: I?;C, SPI, UART (desirable)Experience creating self-checking test benches and performing simulation-based verificationPractical experience bringing up and testing FPGA hardware in the labStrong understanding of: Timing constraints (XDC), Clock domain crossing (CDC), Metastability, Reset strategies, Synchronous digital design principlesExperience using version control systems such as SVNA track record of delivering FPGA functionality from requirements through to validated hardwareIt would be great if you had:Knowledge of PCB design considerations and signal integrity principlesExperience using scripting languages such as Tcl or Python to automate development flowsExposure to FPGA design process improvements and build automationExperience collaborating closely with embedded software and electronics engineering teams in a product development environmentWhy join HUBER+SUHNER PolatisAt HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, our people are at the centre of everything we do. We offer the opportunity to work on innovative technologies, solve challenging engineering problems and develop your career within a global organisation.If you’re looking for a role where you can combine FPGA expertise with cutting-edge technology development, we’d love to hear from you.Apply today and help us build the technology that keeps the world connected.
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