FPGA Engineer

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L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title – FPGA Engineer

Job Location – Tewkesbury, UK

Job ID – 30286

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Tewkesbury is our HQ for our Intelligence & Cyber International division. In the land domain, our T7 and T4 multi-mission robots deliver next-generation remote capabilities and uncompromised performance. We design and manufacture world-leading land force protection systems, cyber and electromagnetic activities (CEMA), electronic warfare (EW) and encryption capabilities. Our cyber capabilities provide an information advantage in the fields of kinetic conflict, cyber warfare, force protection and counterterrorism.

We are seeking experienced engineers to join project teams of all sizes within our Information Resilience and Electronic Warfare departments.

You will engage and work alongside engineers of all disciplines who are passionate about technology and applying it to the nationally critical projects in which they work.

You will become part of the established Firmware engineering community that has a heavy emphasis on developing talent through in-depth internal training, mentoring, knowledge sharing and social events and a spirit of shared responsibility for the modernisation and development of our tools and processes.

The industry leading products you will help to develop use FPGAs as a key enabling technology for high-speed packet processing, implementation of complex algorithms and security enforcing functions.

You will be exposed to a modern FPGA development environment that utilises the latest tools and Continuous Integration methods.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• £3,000 to £6,000 DV Bonus – please note this level of clearance isn’t essential for this role. This bonus is subject to individual clearance and project requirements – discussed upon application.
• Hybrid working where possible, three days onsite per week (minimum) – please note this is project dependent and may change at any time.
• Flexible or part-time working arrangements considered upon request
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What you’ll bring 

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Strong understanding of low-level FPGA physical characteristics and how to write VHDL to achieve optimal efficiency and timing closure
• Experience targeting AMD FPGA and System on a Chip (SoC) devices, including the AXI protocol
• Proficient in FPGA simulation using Siemens QuestaSim tools
• Experience with modern verification methodologies (e.g. OSVVM & CoCoTB)
• Experience in using AMD FPGA build tools (ISE & Vivado)
• Good technical documentation skills
• Ability to utilise, develop and maintain scripted build flows (TCL/ Python)
• Experience with modern, team-based version control systems (Git)
• Understanding of Continuous Integration approaches and tools (e.g. Gitlab & Docker)
• Driven, adaptable, innovative, self-starter capable of quickly assimilating information from a range of sources. Someone who knows what they know and what they don't with the ability to draw upon and collaborate with others from a range of functions. Someone who is keen to make a difference by suggesting improvements, implementing changes and progressing our business.

If you are the right candidate for this role and possess the required fundamental skills then we will fully commit to your continued professional development by providing you with the necessary mix of training combined with close-in technical line management to help support you in mastering our FPGA development workflows.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.