Permanent

Radar FPGA Design Engineer

Expert Employment

North London, N8 0JP

65000 - 75000 Per Annum None

Posted: 12 September 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Closing date: 12 October 2026

Ref: 2906

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About the Role

This permanent Radar FPGA Design Engineer position sits with Expert Employment in North London, offering £65,000 to £75,000 annually. The successful applicant operates at technical leadership level, unpacking requirements, coaching junior engineers and chairing design reviews while remaining hands-on to deliver FPGA architecture suited to client deployment. Essential skills include VHDL development at Senior or Principal grade, multi-FPGA implementation, digital signal processing and high-speed design, with satellite communications or radar system exposure preferred. Duties span electronic design from preliminary specification through testing and system certification. The engineer must absorb, specify and champion high-level requirements, appreciating application needs before translating them into implementable solutions.

FPGA Design Engineer with DSP ideally radar system design experience maximising multiple FPGAs. The ideal candidate will be at technical leadership level willing to unpack requirements, coach juniors, conduct design reviews and be hands on where needed to deliver working FPGA architecture that is easily implemented to a client environment.
Requirements
Hands on VHDL based FPGA Design experience to Senior or ideally Principal level.
Multiple FPGA architecture.
Digital Signal Processing, high speed, satellite communications, ideally radar experience.
Able to absorb, specify and champion high level requirements taking the time to appreciate and understand the application needs.
Responsibilities
Electronic design of advanced FPGAs, from requirements, preliminary specification, test, system certification to verified design implemented and running on target hardware.
Firmware
VHDL simulation, test bench design, implementation verification and debug using test equipment oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, signal generators, etc.
FPGA and VHDL Design Reviews.
Masters, Bachelors or PhD in relevant area from a good university.

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