FPGA / Digital Design Engineer

Foundry Nine · Semiconductors

RTL for a RISC-V inference accelerator, two tape-outs a year.

Hardware / FPGA / ASICSenior (5–9 yrs)HybridPermanentSponsors visas

Salary band

£70,000 – £90,000

0.05–0.25% options

Location
Belfast
Pattern
Hybrid
Posted
27 Aug 2026 (7d ago)
Process
3 stages, listed below
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The work

The accelerator does int8 inference at the edge with a hard power budget. Most decisions come back to that budget.

Worth knowing

  • Two days in Belfast, the rest remote.
  • Verification is the majority of the work and is treated as senior work.

Must have

  • RTL design taken to silicon or a shipping FPGA product
  • Verification as part of design
  • Timing closure

Nice to have

  • RISC-V
  • Systolic arrays or dataflow accelerators

Interview process

If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    30 min

    Their questions and yours. No competency framework.

  2. 02

    Technical conversation

    60 min

    Walk through something you built. No live coding.

  3. 03

    Team and offer

    45 min

    Meet the people you would work with, talk numbers.