Job summary

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke simulator solutions?

Key skills required for this role

Firmware Engineer, Firmware Architect, FPGA, Xilinx, Schematics, DOORS, Enterprise Architect, Design, Testing

Important

Firmware Engineer, Firmware Architect, FPGA, Xilinx, Schematics, DOORS, Enterprise Architect, Design, Testing

Job description

Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance *minimum 5 years UK residency*

Working: Possible Flexible and some remote working potentials.

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke simulator solutions?

Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!

Role purpose:

Technical leadership and oversight of Firmware/FPGA development processes, and the Firmware/FPGA requirements, architectures, designs and implementations across multiple projects within the UK-based engineering organisation of the Cyber Business Unit.

Experience needed:

• Expert history of FPGA module design and implementation.
• Expert experience of using one or more of Xilinx, Lattice, Altera or Microsemi FPGAs and their associated development tool chains.
• Expert experience of FPGA firmware testing, test tools and design for test.
• Expert knowledge and experience of timing and constraints analysis and timing closure.
• Exposure to FPGA separation techniques such as Xilinx's Isolation Design Flow.
• Expert knowledge of issues surrounding designs containing multiple clock domains and robust solutions.
• Ability to read, interpret and understand hardware schematics.
• Experience of version control, change control and bug tracking tools and systems, including administration tasks.
• Experience of defining and rolling out best practice firmware development processes/lifecycles.
• Experience of defining and rolling out continuous integration and automated test tools and frameworks.
• Experience of DOORS and Enterprise Architect.
• Experience of deploying coding standards for defence, space or air worthiness techniques and standards such as MISRA.

Desirable:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.

• Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject desirable.

For full information, please get in touch!