Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Senior FPGA Design Engineers — Quantum Computing Hardware

Location: Delft, Netherlands (Hybrid — 2–3 days onsite)

Salary: Up to €90,000 base, depending on experience

Employment: Permanent | Multiple positions available

What if your next FPGA design helped power the future of quantum computing?

I'm partnering with an ambitious, fast-growing deep-tech company developing next-generation control and measurement hardware for quantum computers.

They're expanding their FPGA engineering team and looking for experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex hardware problems, taking genuine technical ownership and seeing their designs progress from architecture and RTL into working physical systems.

This isn't a role focused on maintaining legacy designs. You'll help develop an entirely new generation of sophisticated FPGA hardware, working alongside specialists in electronics, embedded software and quantum technology.

The engineering challenges

We're recruiting across four specialist areas:

• High-Speed Network FPGA: 10G/100G Ethernet, SerDes, packet processing, high-throughput datapaths and multi-FPGA communication.
• Core FPGA & DSP: Digital signal processing, fixed-point RTL, waveform generation, NCOs, filtering and processor architectures.
• FPGA Platform & Integration: AMD/Xilinx Zynq, AXI, DDR3/DDR4, vendor IP integration, ADC/DAC interfaces and hardware bring-up.
• Digital Communications FPGA: OFDM, synchronization, channel equalization, forward error correction and translating algorithms into efficient hardware.

You don't need experience in all four areas. We're looking for genuine depth in at least one.

What we're looking for

• Ideally 5+ years of hands-on FPGA design and implementation experience.
• Strong VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog skills.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx or Intel FPGA development tools.
• Understanding of synthesis, timing closure, clock-domain crossing and RTL verification.
• Experience integrating FPGA IP, debugging hardware and working with physical prototypes.
• Engineers who can solve difficult technical problems independently and collaborate across hardware and software teams.

Experience in semiconductors, telecommunications, aerospace, radar, instrumentation or high-performance computing would be particularly relevant.

Previous quantum computing experience is not required.

Why consider it?

• Work on genuinely cutting-edge quantum computing technology.
• Influence the architecture of next-generation FPGA systems.
• Own technically challenging designs from concept to hardware.
• Collaborate with highly skilled engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Join a growing engineering organisation where your technical contributions have a direct impact.
• Competitive salary up to €90,000 and hybrid working in Delft.

Interested?

If you've built complex FPGA systems and want your next engineering challenge to push you technically, I'd love to speak with you.

Apply directly or message me confidentially with your CV.

Even if you're not actively looking, I'm happy to share more about the technical challenges and explore whether there's a potential fit.