Contract FPGA Engineer
Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience developing FPGA solutions using VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Hands-on experience with FPGA toolchains such as Xilinx Vivado and/or Intel Quartus.
- Demonstrable experience delivering FPGA designs from specification through to implementation.
- Degree qualified in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Active SC Clearance or eligibility for SC Clearance is required.
- Existing DV Clearance would be a significant advantage.
- Desirable: experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and system modelling using MATLAB or Simulink.
- Desirable: embedded software development in C/C++ within Linux environments.
- Desirable: experience of communications systems, software-defined radio (SDR), radar, or other RF technologies.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating within a multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Design, develop, and implement FPGA firmware using VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Support the full FPGA development lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, simulation, and verification.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and systems engineers to integrate FPGA solutions into complex products.
- Contribute to the development of prototype systems for technically challenging applications.
- Assist with testing, debugging, and optimisation of FPGA designs.
- Embedded
- FPGA
- Firmware
- Hardware
- Support
- Linux
- Matlab
- Verilog
- VHDL
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We are offering an exciting 6-month contract opportunity for an experienced FPGA Engineer to join our innovative engineering team in Cambridge, working on cutting-edge technology projects within the defence and secure communications sector. This is an on-site role with a competitive rate dependent on experience and is outside IR35. You will work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop high-performance hardware solutions from initial concept through to prototype and testing.
last updated 34 week of 2026