Electronic FPGA Engineer

Electronic FPGA Engineer
Location: Cambridge, CB4 0WN
Salary: Competitive, DOE + Excellent Benefits
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week (8:00am to 6:00pm), with occasional overtime and weekend working. This is an on-site role.
Benefits: Annual bonus scheme, Private healthcare, Co-financed gym membership, Life insurance, Additional annual leave through our Company Day, Ongoing learning and development opportunities
At HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, we're helping to keep the world connected.
Our innovative optical networking solutions enable the seamless movement of data across global communications infrastructure, supporting some of the world's most demanding data and communications networks.
We're looking for an experienced Electronic FPGA Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Cambridge.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on advanced FPGA-based solutions, taking designs from concept through to validated hardware and contributing to products that sit at the heart of next-generation connectivity.
If you're passionate about digital design, enjoy solving complex hardware challenges, and thrive in a collaborative engineering environment, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
As an Electronic FPGA Engineer, you'll play a key role in the design, development, verification and validation of FPGA solutions for our optical networking products.
* Designing and implementing FPGA logic in VHDL for Xilinx Artix-7 devices using Vivado
* Creating and maintaining low-level driver logic for interfaces including I²C and SPI
* Supporting requirements capture, architecture definition and module-level design specifications
* Contributing to Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacture (DFM) considerations throughout the development lifecycle
* Writing and maintaining test benches, including self-checking test environments where appropriate
* Performing functional and timing simulations to verify FPGA designs
* Documenting verification activities and validation results
* Ensuring robust and reliable operation through rigorous testing and review processes
* Using laboratory equipment such as logic analysers and oscilloscopes for debugging and performance verification
* Investigating timing, interface and constraint-related issues
* Working closely with electronics and software engineers to resolve complex technical challenges
* Managing XDC constraints, clocking strategies, reset architectures and clock domain crossing analysis
* Achieving timing closure and generating production-ready FPGA bitstreams
* Applying best practices for synchronous design, metastability mitigation and design reliability
* Maintaining configuration management and release processes using version control tools
* Producing high-quality technical documentation.
What we're looking for
You'll be a practical FPGA engineer with strong technical expertise and a passion for delivering reliable, high-quality products.
In order to be successful in this role it is essential that you have:
* Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
* Strong hands-on experience developing and verifying FPGA designs using VHDL
* Proven experience working with Xilinx Artix-7 devices
* Strong knowledge of Vivado including: Project creation and management, Synthesis, Place and route, Constraints management, Timing analysis and closure, Bitstream generation, Experience designing deterministic finite state machines (FSMs)
* Experience implementing and validating embedded communication interfaces including: I²C, SPI, UART (desirable)
* Experience creating self-checking test benches and performing simulation-based verification
* Practical experience bringing up and testing FPGA hardware in the lab
* Strong understanding of: Timing constraints (XDC), Clock domain crossing (CDC), Metastability, Reset strategies, Synchronous digital design principles
* Experience using version control systems such as SVN
* A track record of delivering FPGA functionality from requirements through to validated hardware
It would be great if you had:
* Knowledge of PCB design considerations and signal integrity principles
* Experience using scripting languages such as Tcl or Python to automate development flows
* Exposure to FPGA design process improvements and build automation
* Experience collaborating closely with embedded software and electronics engineering teams in a product development environment
Why join HUBER+SUHNER Polatis
At HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, our people are at the centre of everything we do. We offer the opportunity to work on innovative technologies, solve challenging engineering problems and develop your career within a global organisation.
If you're looking for a role where you can combine FPGA expertise with cutting-edge technology development, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us build the technology that keeps the world connected
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed