Principal FPGA Engineer – St Neots (PE19) - Perm

We are expanding an existing team led by our Engineering Manager at our office in St Neots. You will help design, implement, and support new capability using your team. You will have opportunity to take part in both domestic and international trials of your teams’ outputs, while working with both present and future technology.

Working autonomously, you will plan and run development Sprints. You will be supported by the Engineering Manager who will work with you to coordinate outputs between sites and to plan team training events. Recognising and relaying customer requests, demands, and comments to our Lincoln location and as the project progresses, you will be crucial to ensure that development, verification, and validation are successful. You will develop into the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the project acting as the main point of contact for stakeholder queries.

The invaluable experience you’ll bring, to help us achieve more.

Joining a large project at the initial stages, you will help manage a small team to deliver Simulink based models for incorporation onto FPGA boards. 

Core to this role will be your deep understanding of Physics/Mathematical principles at Degree-level and experience as an FPGA engineer, as well as your working knowledge of electro-optic (EO) infra-red (IR) and radio frequency (RF) sensors, within a Defence setting.

You’ll be familiar with working in textual and graphical programming environments, have experience in systems engineering research and development, and the fundamental mathematical knowledge to analyse complex models and simulations. Ideally having used Simulink to conduct analysis.

You’ll also be a willing mentor, able to answer questions, bounce ideas, drive and develop the team around you.

This will mean providing ongoing support and continuous assistance during development to help with these design and implementation tasks, using your knowledge of Simulink to model systems.

Essential experience

• Experience in managing a team
• Experience with the FPGA build process
• A deep understanding of Physics/Mathematical principles at Degree-level
• Test and acceptance of integrated systems
• System Design Documentation
• Modelling systems
• Coding experience (JavaScript or MATLAB/Simulink)

Desirable experience

• Requirements Management (DOORS/Enterprise Architect etc.)

• Defence Industry knowledge of EW systems

• Experience across the Engineering Delivery Lifecycle

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance

• Salary £50,000 to £65,000
• 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Annual Wellbeing allowance
• Two pension schemes to choose from
• Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members
• Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
• Share Save scheme
• Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retail discounts
• Career development support

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 60+ electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds, our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve the true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.