Senior / Principal Firmware EngineerOur 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/ 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
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