FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; on-site with full-time office attendance. Must be eligible to work in the UK.

Company

hirify.global builds computers, microcontrollers, and supporting software for industrial, embedded, and home users worldwide; it was founded as a charity in 2008.

What you will do

• Adapt ASIC designs for FPGA technology, including memory translation, clocking and gating, and cell mapping.
• Partition complex SoC designs across multi-FPGA platforms such as Synopsys HAPS and Siemens proFPGA using high-end AMD/Xilinx devices.
• Bring up, test, debug, and maintain FPGA prototyping platforms and flows.
• Automate ProtoCompiler, Synplify, and Vivado flows with Tcl and Python.
• Integrate high-speed PCIe, LPDDR, and Ethernet interfaces and define and test interface boards.
• Diagnose platform issues with design, verification, and software teams and collaborate with EDA vendors on tool requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial FPGA experience, including prototyping complex SoCs or CPUs.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx Vivado flows using high-end UltraScale+ or Versal devices.
• SystemVerilog RTL and ASIC/SoC development flows.
• Scripting with Tcl and Python.
• Git version control experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with internal stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Synopsys HAPS, ProtoCompiler, and Synplify.
• Experience with VCS, Questa, and Verdi simulation and debug tools.
• Experience prototyping Arm or RISC-V CPU subsystems.
• Embedded Linux bring-up on FPGA platforms.
• Experience with Siemens proFPGA, Cadence Protium, or other FPGA prototyping platforms.
• Board-level bring-up and debugging experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Highly collaborative environment with pragmatic, independent working.
• 8% employer pension contribution when contributing 4% of gross salary through the company salary sacrifice pension plan.
• Life assurance of four times base salary.
• Income protection covering 75% of base salary for critical illness after 13 weeks of long-term illness or absence.
• Private medical insurance with medical history disregarded.
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice scheme, subject to eligibility.