Senior FPGA Engineer (RFSoC / DSP) Bristol (Onsite)£KO2’s client, an innovative and rapidly growing engineering organisation based in Bristol, is looking to recruit a Senior FPGA Engineer to join their high-performing hardware and signal processing team.
The position is approximately 80% technical delivery, with additional responsibility for mentoring engineers and helping shape engineering processes and best practices. The role is five days onsite in Bristol, working closely with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, RF, and software.
As a Senior FPGA Engineer, you will contribute to the architecture and implementation of high-performance FPGA solutions used within cutting-edge systems that process large volumes of real-world data in real time.
You will work with AMD/Xilinx RFSoC platforms, designing FPGA signal processing pipelines and ensuring performance, determinism, and scalability across complex systems. This is an opportunity to influence system-level architecture, improve engineering workflows, and help drive technical excellence within the team.
Design and implement high-performance FPGA architectures using Xilinx / AMD RFSoC platforms Work closely with RF, hardware, and software teams to deliver integrated systems Support hardware bring-up, testing, and debugging in lab environments Contribute to engineering methodology improvements and best practices Proven experience working with RFSoC or Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms Strong DSP fundamentals with the ability to translate algorithms into FPGA implementations Experience delivering performance-critical FPGA designs with challenging timing or resource constraints Eligible to obtain SC security clearance
MATLAB or Python for DSP modelling or algorithm development Familiarity with high-speed data interfaces and streaming architectures Experience improving engineering processes and development workflows
This role offers the opportunity to join a highly capable engineering team working on technically demanding systems where FPGA design is central to product performance. If you are an experienced FPGA engineer looking for a technically challenging role with leadership influence, KO2’s client would like to hear from you….