Overview

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 makes hardware-accelerated architecture enabling real-time transactional AI at scale, eliminating bottlenecks in data-intensive environments.

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

Desirables

• PCIe 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

Tech Stack

• Quartus Prime Pro, Vivado, ModelSim, Questa
• Verilog, SystemVerilog
• C, C++, Python, Haskell, Erlang, TCL
• Git, Jira

How to apply

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