FPGA Verification Engineer

Bristol, United Kingdom
Full Time
Hardware Engineering
Entry Level

Company overview

Civitanavi UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Civitanavi Systems S.p.A., has been established to address major business opportunities in the UK and to bring the UK a sovereign capability in high grade inertial sensors and systems and GNSS products.  Civitanavi UK Ltd will be based in a brand new facility in Bristol, close to major aerospace and defence customers and travel links (hybrid working will be considered).  The UK business has already established a strong reputation with major UK primes and is now ready to recruit for a number of key roles.
Civitanavi Systems is a professional yet dynamic company with a can-do attitude at all levels.  The business is hungry for ideas and passionate about delivering to the customer what they need when they need it, “We Care, We Perform, We Deliver” is not just a slogan, it is a driving principle.   

Civitanavi Systems S.p.A. is fully owned by Honeywell.


Candidates must be eligible to obtain UK security clearances   Hopefully this will focus the responses better.


Duties and responsabilities

  • Studying FPGA requirements to understand verification requirements.
  • Working with the FPGA design team to establish test priorities and coverage targets.
  • Defining test procedures.
  • Establishing verification methodology, architecture, and infrastructure including models, generators, monitors, etc.
  • Developing the established test benches using VHDL.
  • Developing FPGA function for HW test purpose.
  • Executing test procedures by simulations and on target tests .
  • Generating reports and verification matrices to ensure coverage of requirements.
  • Reporting code coverage analysis.
  • Reporting RTL bugs and supporting designers to resolve them.
  • Creating and maintaining regressions, providing reports to the team.
  • Supporting project planning efforts and ensuring execution to schedule.
  • Generating and reviewing HW related engineering documentation.
  • Managing documentation and VHDL code in adherence to Configuration Management and Change Control procedures.
  • Conducting or participating in design reviews and supporting customer audits.
  • Managing assigned tasks simultaneously and effectively communicating with the team members, the group head and, if necessary, with all levels of the organization.

Qualification and Skills
       Required
  • Master's degree in an electronic engineering discipline o similar.
  • Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience coding, simulating, and verifying VHDL code for FPGA.
  • Experience with EDA tools such as HDL simulators and FPGA design tools.
  • Experience with FPGA testbenches development.
  • Experience with laboratory instruments (power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc).
  • Organized and systematic to maintain documentation in appropriate order.
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Knowledge of English Language, both in writing/reading technical documentation and in speaking/listening during project meeting and design reviews.
       Preferred
  • Experience with Mentor Questasim and Xilinx Vivado.
  • Experience with UVM/VMM/OVM Frameworks or System Verilog.
  • Experience with IBM DOORS and Mentor Reqtracer.
  • Experience of version control, e.g., SVN, GIT.
  • Experience with the FPGA design flow (synthesis, place & route, timing closure).
  • Experience with DO-254 standard.
  • Integration experience using SoC (System on Chip) devices especially Xilinx product family.

Candidates must be eligible to obtain UK security clearances   Hopefully this will focus the responses better.
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