Senior Electronics Engineer
Harlow, on site full time
12-month contract – Inside IR35
SC needed (ideal but can start on BPSS)
The role
Our client is looking for an experienced and high performing contract Electronics Engineer to join a successful Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) team within the Global Sensors Mission Area, creating Digital GPS Anti-Jam Systems for the military market.
Skills and experience
* Experience creating top level Design architectures
* Experience testing and verifying requirements
* Experience in working with DSP, Micro, Memory devices, ADCs, DACs, Power supply
* Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies
* Ability to understand VHDL code
* Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to others
* An openness to learn and try new techniques
* Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment - working independently or with others to overcome obstacles
* Capable of analysing and reporting on technical data
* Eligible or holder of current SC security clearance
Desirable:
* Experience using the Vivado and Vitis design tools, or equivalent
* Experience working with the Xilinx chip family
* Experience delivering embedded firmware as part of a product
* Knowledge of Embedded C
* Experience creating embedded system architectures
* Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development lifecycle
* Knowledge of defence engineering / airborne standards
* Working with Model Based System Engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink
Responsibilities
The successful applicant will support the APNT Team across various programmes (both internally and Customer funded) and will involve the following main duties within the product development:
* Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards.
* Create and manage architectures for Digital Electronics and firmware (mainly FPGAs)
* Understand, decompose and verify Design requirements
* Create FPGA design using VHDL and embedded C
* Define and perform unit level and sub system level testing for embedded firmware
* Create design documents (HW +Firmware)
* Create Test Documents
* Create Firmware Simulation Test Reports
* Create Timing and Power Analysis Reports
* Work alongside our embedded system, software and other electronic design engineers
* Perform technical reviews of the documents and release