Embedded Design Engineer - FPGA Academy

hackajob is partnering directly with Leonardo to hire for this role.

Job Description:

Your Impact

Are you looking for a change of role and are wondering if a move into FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) design might be for you? Leonardo provides a route to develop your existing skills in our on-site FPGA Academy, to allow you to become a full-time Senior FPGA / Firmware Engineer. Youll then apply your talents to a range of cutting edge designs in our world class Radar and Advanced Targeting Systems (RATS) team.

About the FPGA Academy

TheFPGA Academy is a 16-week structured training and development programmedesigned for engineers with transferable technical skill sets (such as electronic engineering, embedded software, or systems engineering) who wish to transition into FPGA / Firmware Engineering.

The Academy provides focused technical training, mentored practical exercises, and hands-on project work. On successful completion, engineers aredeployed across a range of complex design projects, contributing to real systems alongside experienced FPGA and Electronics engineers.

This programme is not intended for absolute beginners; it is aimed at capable engineers with strong fundamentals and proven problem-solving ability who can quickly adapt and progress.

About the Role

As an FPGA Academy Engineer, you will re-skill into a FPGA / Firmware engineering role and apply your existing engineering and coding experience to the design, implementation, and verification of complex electronic systems. You will learn how to translate requirements into robust FPGA-based solutions and work within established engineering processes suitable for high-reliability and mission-critical applications.

What Youll Do

During the Academy, and following deployment, you will:

Undertake a structured 16-week FPGA training programme combining:

Practical labs

Mentored design exercises

Online training material and self-led research

Apply systems thinking to hardware design challenges

Post training deployment into established engineering teams

Once you have completed the Academy, as aFPGA / Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for (with support appropriate to your development stage):

Hardware requirements, captur...