FPGA Engineer

  • Manpower UK Ltd
  • Bristol, Gloucestershire
  • Nov 04, 2025
Contractor Engineering

Job Description

Role: FPGA Engineer

Location: Bristol

Duration: 6 months

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About our Client:

Our client is a leading global aerospace, Defense, and security company specializing in delivering complex, mission-critical solutions. With a strong heritage in engineering and innovation, they provide essential services across aviation, marine, land, and nuclear sectors, supporting governments, armed forces, and commercial clients worldwide. Renowned for their commitment to safety, sustainability, and technological advancement, our client plays a vital role in ensuring operational excellence for their customers. Join them and be part of a team that drives innovation and delivers cutting-edge solutions in some of the world's most demanding environments.

We're looking for a driven, flexible and passionate FPGA Engineer with experience of CEMA to join us in our Land CEMA focus area within our client's Mission Systems to support delivery of our in-service projects.

The difference you will make

As a Senior FPGA Engineer you will be responsible for:

  • Working with our delivery teams, supporting the outsourcing of work, assessing the credibility and completeness of our suppliers work packages
  • As the programmes mature, increasing environment complexity, working with multi-discipline teams and our suppliers to create compliant CEMA solutions.
  • Understanding and assessing FPGA delivery timescales and risk for our CEMA activities.

A Senior FPGA Engineer with experience of working on CEMA projects


Required Experience

  • Knowledge / Experience of developing / modelling / simulating software in at least one of the following areas:
    • RF telecommunications,
    • waveforms,
    • OSI model,
    • SIGINT,
    • EW
  • VHDL
  • VERILOG Experience with SDR architecture
  • Agile development methodologies.
  • C#, C, C++, Python and Database architecture.

Desirable Experience

  • XML
  • Networked systems
  • JICD
  • Restful and/or RPC API
  • Library agnostic code development
  • Geospatial engines
  • Cloud containers / Docker
  • OPEN CPI Application/Component and Platform development
  • Experience of Dev Ops

Skills And Attributes

  • Excellent communication skills both oral and written
  • Ability to work autonomously and use initiative
  • Self-motivated and a quick learner
  • Attention to detail
  • Driven to produce quality work
  • Willingness and ability to learn new skills