Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer



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



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



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/ documentationDesirable



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 



Qualifications



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



Due to security requirements this role is open to SOLE UK