FPGA Engineer (Power Supplies)

Diamond Light Source

📍 Didcot, England, United Kingdom 💼 Full time / Fixed term 🕒 Posted January 30, 2026

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About the Role
We now have an opportunity for a FPGA Engineer to join our team, for a 3-year fixed term contract, in developing FPGA firmware for the next generation of power supplies for the Diamond-II upgrade project, focusing on quality, reliability, and stability.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop, maintain, and debug HDL code for Xilinx FPGAs in Vivado, implementing full-cycle firmware for Diamond magnet power supplies, including feedback control, filtering, and interlock handling using state machines.

Design and integrate interfaces to peripherals such as ADCs, DACs, SRAM, Flash memory, sensors, and microcontrollers.

Test and verify FPGA designs through simulation test benches and on-hardware validation using logic analysers.

Collaborate with hardware engineers and the Control Group to optimise performance, resolve issues, and develop reliable Ethernet-based control interfaces.

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Job Details

Location Didcot, England
Job Type Full time / Fixed term
Category Engineers
Posted Date January 30, 2026
Application Deadline March 11, 2026