Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer (0093)

Department: Hardware

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Southampton, UK

You will work on revolutionary technology that is at the leading edge of satellite communications, a 5G base station to be deployed on board satellite. This technology will underpin the next generation of mobile standards, giving complete coverage to the globe. Acceler Comm develops the base‑band signal processing technology, using hardware acceleration to generate world‑leading power efficiency.

You will work on the latest generation space‑qualified devices, delivering standalone IP and IP integration, with potential to explore implementation on AI engines.

• Work closely with the Algorithm team to understand requirements and translate them into architectures for RTL implementations.
• Implement designs targeting both FPGA and ASIC using industry‑standard techniques, including the creation of UVM‑based test benches.
• Deploy your designs onto the latest FPGA development platforms for validation and system integration.
• Actively engage with and adhere to Acceler Comm engineering methodology, processes and design techniques, offering improvements to efficiency and quality for both the design flow and the final product.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the whole design flow: micro‑architecture, design, verification, physical implementation and optimisation for ASIC and FPGA.

• Expert knowledge of an RTL language (Verilog, System Verilog) for complex ASIC/FPGA products.
• A strong skillset in delivering digital designs in the ASIC and FPGA industry.
• Optimisation of timing and hardware resources for high‑throughput data or signal‑processing applications; experience in power management techniques, synthesis and timing analysis.
• Track record in collaborating across teams to produce integrated solutions.
• Experience in technical documentation writing – design specifications, user guides, verification plans.
• Expert user of EDA tools for simulation and synthesis.

• Knowledge of communications signal‑processing algorithms (such as error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming).
• Familiar with the AMBA bus protocol.
• Understanding of UVM verification techniques or practical experience using UVM for IP verification.
• Experience using C++/System
  
  C for design modelling and integration.
• Knowledge of a scripting language, such as Python.
• Knowledge and appreciation of project methodologies across the design lifecycle, including agile and waterfall, requirement capture and traceability.

Experience with AMD FPGAs and the associated design tools or any EDA ASIC backend tools.