Senior/Principal FPGA Engineer

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. Senior/Principal FPGA Engineer £50,000 - £65,000 + excellent bens Chelmsford, Essex Space Imaging is expanding its portfolio of projects to develop Front End Electronics (FEE) systems for Space applications. These systems are being offered as a packaged CMOS detector with FEE, where the FEE will include an FPGA coded in VHDL. The new systems require high quality FPGA Designs to operate in Space with high reliability for 5-year long missions or longer. We are seeking a key individual to work within a multi-disciplinary project team comprising of FPGA engineers, electrical hardware engineers, software engineers, and verification engineers. The candidate will be the primary interface between the FPGA functional team and the Product Assurance team. Experience: Knowledge of development standards used in Space, Aerospace, or Defence. Preferably ECSS-Q-ST-60-03C and ECSS-E-ST-20-40C. Previous experience of ensuring compliance across the full FPGA development life cycle. Verifying robust high reliability coding. Developing FPGA verification and validation plans and quality assurance procedures. Experience with version control software such as subversion. Experience of requirements managements using software tools such as Jama. Experience with issue tracking software such as Redmine or Jira. Previous experience developing VHDL FPGA code and using FPGA simulation tools and UVVM testbenches. Experience writing verification and validation plans. Methodical approach to verification testing and recording of results. Must have the ability to communicate well, with a focus on high quality customer facing documentation.

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