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Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

Luton
money-bag £80000 - £90000/annum
223889936
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Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

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Our client, a global leader in the Defence Industry is looking for a Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer working on avionics systems.

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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.

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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
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Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

  • Proven expertise 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) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
  • Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
  • Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements
  • Independent verification using VHDL
  • Experience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools
  • De-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
    and system level
  • A good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software
  • Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities.
  • Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
  • 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 D
  • Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
  • Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
  • Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
  • Familiarity with latest FPGA device families
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Qualifications

  • Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject
This role could be based in Luton or Edinburgh

Due to security requirements this role is open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY

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