Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer\n\nOur client, a global leader in the Defence Industry is looking for a Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer working on avionics systems.\n\nRole Overview: \n\n 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.\n\nJob Responsibilities:\n\n The firmware engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide firmware solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.\n\nCreating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs\nDocumenting and recording deliverables\nVerifying firmware designs\nEnsuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control\nProviding progress reports \n\n Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:\n\n Mandatory\n\nProven expertise of developing firmware using VHDL or Verilog\nExperienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision\nFamiliar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools\nExperience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.\nAbility to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements\nIndependent verification using VHDL\nExperience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools\nDe-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware \nand system level\nA good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software\nExperience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities.\nExperience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations\nAbility to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead firmware engineer & other disciplines\nExcellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills\nLinux and scripting experience\nExperience in writing technical reports/ documentationDesirable\n\nDevelopment of real-time, embedded, safety-critical firmware, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL D\nIndependent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM\nRelevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry\nExperience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs\nFamiliarity with latest FPGA device families \n\n Qualifications\n\nHonours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subjectThis role could be based in Luton or Edinburgh\n\nDue to security requirements this role is open to SOLE UK ONLY