The Role
Designs, verifies, and reviews FPGA code for high-speed motion capture, video, calibration, synchronization, and networking hardware. Ensures timing closure, functional performance, test coverage, regulatory compliance, and manufacturability across the product lifecycle. Collaborates with electronic, mechanical, and software engineers from concept through manufacturing support. The role requires strong VHDL expertise, FPGA verification experience, digital design knowledge, and familiarity with interfaces such as LVDS, PCIe, and GMII.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you interested in working on products at the very cutting edge of technology? Want to join Vicon, an Academy Award®-winning company, and the world’s largest supplier of precision motion capture and tracking systems?
Vicon is the world leader in motion capture technology, developing high performance software and hardware products for the entertainment, engineering and life science industries. Vicon products are used in major feature films, games, and commercials, and are a crucial measurement tool for biomechanics, robotics, and cutting-edge science.
Vicon is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics Plc.
Role Summary:
Role Summary:
We are looking for a Senior FPGA Design Engineer to join our development team in Oxford. Reporting to the Lead Hardware Development Engineer, you will form part of the team creating industry leading hardware products.
Key Responsibilities
• Design and verification of FPGA code for a range of hardware products including high-speed motion capture and video cameras, calibration devices and synchronisation and networking equipment.
• Ensure all FPGA designs achieve required level of timing closure and functional performance before release.
• Code reviews of existing and new VHDL/Verilog files.
• Working alongside a team comprising of electronic, mechanical and software design engineers in the creation of high performing and cost-effective solutions.
• Ensuring designs have appropriate test coverage for development and manufacture and that designs meet appropriate regulatory compliance.
• Full product lifecycle involvement from early conceptual studies through to manufacturing support post-release.
• Ensure all FPGA designs achieve required level of timing closure and functional performance before release.
• Code reviews of existing and new VHDL/Verilog files.
• Working alongside a team comprising of electronic, mechanical and software design engineers in the creation of high performing and cost-effective solutions.
• Ensuring designs have appropriate test coverage for development and manufacture and that designs meet appropriate regulatory compliance.
• Full product lifecycle involvement from early conceptual studies through to manufacturing support post-release.
Required Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
• Strong demonstratable experience in VHDL including implementation of algorithms. Verilog experience an advantage.
• Experience in compilation timing closure is essential.
• Working knowledge of interface standards such as LVDS, PCIE, GMII etc
• Skilled in testbench generation and verification on new design features
• Competent with Version Control System tools, like Git, SVN, etc
• A knowledge of high-speed digital design, a working knowledge of analogue design and experience of developing products for manufacture with an emphasis on DFM/DFT would be advantageous.
• Suitable candidates will be educated to degree level in Electronic Engineering (or equivalent) with demonstrable and relevant industry experience.
• A working knowledge of image sensors, optics, Ethernet and RF Design would be advantageous, as would using AI to augment your work.
We’re looking for an outgoing, confident and self-motivated candidate that will be a great fit within our small and highly experienced team of engineers.
• Experience in compilation timing closure is essential.
• Working knowledge of interface standards such as LVDS, PCIE, GMII etc
• Skilled in testbench generation and verification on new design features
• Competent with Version Control System tools, like Git, SVN, etc
• A knowledge of high-speed digital design, a working knowledge of analogue design and experience of developing products for manufacture with an emphasis on DFM/DFT would be advantageous.
• Suitable candidates will be educated to degree level in Electronic Engineering (or equivalent) with demonstrable and relevant industry experience.
• A working knowledge of image sensors, optics, Ethernet and RF Design would be advantageous, as would using AI to augment your work.
We’re looking for an outgoing, confident and self-motivated candidate that will be a great fit within our small and highly experienced team of engineers.
Benefits
· Competitive salary
· 10% Company Pension
· 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
· Life Cover
· Private Medical with Optical / Dental Insurance
· Permanent Health Insurance
· Cycle to work scheme.
· Free On-site Parking
About
Oxford Metrics is a smart sensing and software company that enables the interface between the real world and its virtual twin. Our smart sensing technology helps over 10,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including all of the world's top 10 games companies and all of the top 20 universities worldwide. The Group trades through its market-leading divisions, Vicon and Industrial Vision & Metrology Systems (merged IVS and Sempre). Vicon is a world leader in motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Red Bull, Imperial College London, Dreamscape Immersive, Industrial Light & Magic, and NASA. Industrial Vision Systems is a specialist in machine vision software and technology for high precision, automated quality control systems trusted by blue-chip, smart manufacturing companies across the globe including BD, DePuy, Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson & Johnson, Zytronic and Alkegen. Sempre is a measurement specialist solving manufacturing challenges across multiple industries. Through their expert in-house consultants and partnerships with over 25 well-known manufacturers including Jenoptik, Renishaw and Micro-Vu, Sempre offers an extensive range of products and software to customers in aerospace, automotive, medical, energy and precision engineering. Founded in 1984 our Group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and Germany. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.
Skills Required
- Strong demonstrable experience in VHDL, including algorithm implementation
- Experience achieving compilation timing closure
- Working knowledge of interface standards such as LVDS, PCIe, and GMII
- Testbench generation and verification of new design features
- Competence with version control systems such as Git or SVN
- Degree-level education in Electronic Engineering or equivalent
- Relevant industry experience
- Verilog experience
- High-speed digital design knowledge
- Analogue design knowledge
- Experience developing products for manufacture, including DFM and DFT
- Knowledge of image sensors, optics, Ethernet, or RF design
- Experience using AI to augment engineering work
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The Company
What We Do
Oxford Metrics is a smart sensing and software company that develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management, enabling organizations to capture, analyze, and act on motion and measurement data.
