Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid 2/3 days on site - Locations: Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Luton, Newcastle or Southampton.
Leading engineering solutions provider, with a strong history in supporting the product lifecycle requirements of high-tech industries. As a trailblazer in offshore product development engineering, we stand as one of the most extensive engineering service providers serving a variety of industry sectors.
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
* 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
* 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
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