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Lead Hardware Developer

Job description

Experienced hardware developers design PCBs or implement processing solutions in FPGAs. Designs vary from low-power microcontroller designs to high-rate network processing solutions incorporating multiple FPGAs and CPUs. Experienced hardware developers work on their own projects and support junior developers in their work.

You will:

Be self-motivating, capable of working independently

Have a good (1st/2.1) undergraduate degree or a PhD in a numerate discipline

Have a strong academic background including A’s in A level Maths and Physics

Have strong verbal and written presentation skills

Have 3 or more years experience of complex PCB design or FPGA development in VHDL

Have embedded software development experience in C/C++

You will have knowledge some of the these skills:

FPGA development in VHDL

PCB design and layout

Embedded software development in C/C++

You will be responsible for:

Simulating and implementing signal and image processing algorithms in VHDL for FPGAs

Designing PCBs using FPGAs, SoCs, high speed network interfaces and analogue/RF signal filtering

Setting to work PCBs including writing test firmware and software

Developing Linux device drivers for hardware

Mentoring and leading others