Senior Firmware Engineer

Hybrid 2/3 days on site - Locations: Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Luton, Newcastle or Southampton.

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Role Overview:

The Senior / Principal firmware engineer would be responsible for design and development of Firmware designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

Job Responsibilities:

The firmware engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide firmware solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

• Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs

• Documenting and recording deliverables

• Verifying firmware designs

• Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control

• Providing progress reports

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

• At least 5 years experience of developing firmware using VHDL or Verilog

• Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision

• Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) ISE design flow and third-party synthesis tools

• Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements

• De-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
  and system level

• A good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software

• Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead firmware engineer & other disciplines

• Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills

• Linux and scripting experience

• Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation

Desirable

• Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical firmware, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B

• Experience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools

• Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry

• Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs

• Independent verification using VHDL or SystemVerilog / UVM

• Familiarity with latest FPGA device families

• Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations

Qualifications

• honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject

• UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance

• Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage