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Job Description:

Cosworth is seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated FPGA Design Engineer to join our engineering team, developing high-performance data and control systems for demanding motorsport applications.

The successful applicant will take ownership of FPGA development across our motorsport product range with a primary focus on the Antares powertrain controller, from requirements and architecture through RTL implementation, verification, integration, release and in-service support.

Candidate Profile:

Essential

• A degree or equivalent qualification in electronic engineering, control systems engineering or a related discipline. Applicants without formal qualifications who can demonstrate suitable experience will also be considered.

• Proven FPGA development experience covering requirements, architecture, detailed RTL design, verification, integration and release.

• Strong VHDL skills and practical experience with Intel Quartus Prime, including TimeQuest timing analysis, or an equivalent FPGA development toolchain.

• A clear understanding of high-quality FPGA design techniques, including synchronous design, clock and reset architecture, metastability and clock-domain crossing management, timing constraints, defensive design and peer review.

• Experience developing testbenches and using simulation to verify functional behaviour, corner cases and fault handling before hardware integration.

• Good knowledge of digital electronics and common embedded interfaces, with the ability to read schematics and collaborate effectively with hardware and software engineers.

• A disciplined approach to requirements, documentation, configuration control, verification evidence and quality engineering processes.

• The ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly, work effectively both independently and within cross-disciplinary teams, and deliver to agreed timescales.

Desirable

• Experience with Intel (Altera) Cyclone and MAX devices, including Cyclone V SoC/HPS integration, Avalon or AXI interfaces and memory-mapped peripherals.

• Experience with real-time digital signal processing, deterministic timing, sensor acquisition, actuator control or safety-related state-machine design.

• Knowledge of communication interfaces such as CAN/CAN FD, Ethernet, LVDS, SPI, I2C, UART and high-speed serial links.

• Experience of inter-FPGA communications, processor-to-FPGA integration, external memory interfaces and robust clock/reset-domain management.

• Experience debugging and developing embedded C software for microcontrollers or SoC processor subsystems.

• Practical experience of design-for-test, boundary scan, JTAG and structured board bring-up or fault investigation.

• Experience developing vehicle-based systems in motorsport, automotive or another high-reliability, fast-paced engineering environment.

• Familiarity with FMEA, V-model development, and relevant quality, process or functional-safety frameworks such as ISO 9001, Automotive SPICE or ISO 26262.