FPGA Design Engineer
📌Great Chesterford, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
FPGA Design Engineer
Location: South Cambridge
Employment Type: Full-time | Hybrid working (3 days office/ 2 days remote)
About the Company:
Our client is a leading technology company specialising in the design and delivery of advanced electronic-scanning radar systems. They operate as an agile SME, allowing them to rapidly adapt to evolving customer needs.
The role:
The FPGA Design Engineer will support a major upgrade across the company's radar product range, focused on improving performance and incorporating new capabilities. As part of this, they will take ownership of digital signal processing functions - from modelling and development to testing and deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
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Lead the design and architecture of DSP systems.
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Design, develop and verify FPGA code (VHDL or Verilog) using Xilinx toolsets.
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Create supporting software for testing and verification of FPGA logic.
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Conduct and lead field trials to evaluate signal processing performance.
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Document and communicate designs clearly across the engineering team.
Required Skills and Experience:
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Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
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Hands-on experience with Xilinx design tools (Vivado), particularly for Zynq MPSoC or similar platforms.
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Proficiency in implementing signal processing algorithms with high-speed I/O in FPGA.
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Solid understanding of high-speed digital circuit design for real-time systems.
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Skilled in simulation and hardware testing, with experience in SystemVerilog or similar tools.
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Software development experience in C/C++, Python or Rust.
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Competent with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, and signal generators.
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Strong communication skills for effective hybrid team collaboration.
Desirable (but not essential):
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Background in radar, sonar, or similar sensor systems.
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Familiarity with radar signal processing methods.
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Embedded Linux development in C/C++.
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Experience with Yocto and/or Petalinux build systems.
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Understanding of Xilinx HLS.
What's on Offer:
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Competitive salary based on experience and expertise.
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Strong focus on personal and professional development.
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Supportive team culture and hybrid working flexibility.
- Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects that have real-world impact.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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