The Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart of the satellite services revolution, driving take-up of space technology and applications to shape, and sustain, the world of tomorrow. We’re driven by how our actions help the organisations we work with, both large and small, bring new services to market. By connecting industry and academia we get new research off the ground and into the market more quickly.

What sort of work would you be involved in?

As an DSP FPGA Design Engineer, you will work with a small team of hardware, software, and mechanical design engineers to assist with the design and development of sub-systems and systems. The role will cover from specification through to hardware testing, verification and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Share your knowledge of digital signal processing for radar, software defined radio applications and or Cellular networks (adept in two will be sufficient)

• Design and drive development of complex FPGA designs and bespoke DSP algorithms.

• Implement new FPGA designs, using VHDL primarily for Xilinx devices

• Use modern simulation and verification techniques to create comprehensive testing/simulation environments Evaluate and test signal processing function and performance

• Full hardware lifecycle for customer’s products: From system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration and support in production.

• Create high quality and robust designs, for fully documenting and recording your work products, keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and progress reports.

• Work closely with Systems, Test and Electronics engineers you will be solving real integration problems on complex systems.

• Dependent on experience, supervise a small team, taking responsibility for planning and managing the workload for both you and the team, ensuring robust engineering solutions are in place.

• Documenting various aspects of the projects at different stages.

• Develop understanding of project plans and help the relevant manager to implement it.

• Support and work with consortium partners, documentation, manage small projects, willingness to travel

Skills & Qualifications

In order to be considered for this role you will ideally have following key skills for the role:

• Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Electronics / Embedded hardware engineering or equivalent

• FPGA design skills using VHDL or Verilog

• Experience with DSP algorithms, design and programming, in-depth experience of a complex DSP project for application in radio frequency and communication

• At least 7+ years of experience in FPGA design for DSP

• Proven experience of working with software design radio

•  Strong understanding of digital signal processing theory and principles

How we work

We strive to create a high trust environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work – this helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture.
Our shared values are critical to this:

• We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet

• We connect - and engage with people and ideas

• We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams, our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.

This job description set outs the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. If you think you can deliver this role then we want to hear from you, regardless of the boxes you didn’t tick.