Electronic Fpga Engineer

Electronic FPGA Engineer | £80,000 - £90,000 DOE | Cambridge | A leader in communications technology is looking for a dynamic Electronics Design Engineer to join their R&D team, designing the next generation of resilient communication technologies. They offer a high level of internal mobility, consistent projects utilising advanced technology, real career progression, and a genuinely refreshing, engineering-led culture. Responsibilities

• Design and implement FPGA logic in VHDL for Xilinx Artix-7 devices using Vivado
• Develop finite state machines to control and sequence hardware interfaces
• Create low-level driver logic for I²C, SPI, and other serial interfaces, including initialisation and error handling
• Write self-checking test benches and conduct functional and timing simulations
• Perform hardware bring-up, lab testing, measurements, and iterative debug
• Manage constraints, clocking, resets, and CDC analysis to achieve timing closure
• Contribute to requirements capture, architecture design, and module specifications
• Maintain configuration management, documentation, and traceability Requirements
• Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
• Strong hands-on VHDL experience for FPGA design and verification
• Proven experience with Xilinx Artix-7 and Vivado (constraints, synthesis, place & route, timing closure, bitstream generation)
• Experience with I²C, SPI, and low-level embedded interfaces
• Understanding of timing constraints, CDC, metastability, and synchronous design
• 3+ years' FPGA development within a product or R&D environment Advantageous
• PCB-level considerations and signal integrity knowledge
• Scripting with Tcl/Python for design flow automation
• Familiarity with version control (SVN)