Please note, due to the nature of work this position is only open to sole British nationals who do not hold any dual nationalities.
The Opportunity:
At Leonardo, we are excited to be recruiting for a skilled FPGA Engineer to work within a multi-disciplinary team for our Precision Guidance area.
In this broad FPGA firmware engineering role, you will work across a range of projects throughout various stages of the product lifecycle from initial concept development through to early life production. You will work with some of the latest high-speed FPGA's and System-on-Chips (SoC's) to help shape our future products.
The role shall be based in Basildon with a primary focus on the design and development of embedded VHDL firmware for complex airborne electro-optics subsystems.
You will be part of the Leonardo Sensors product development group within the Integrated Sensing & Protection line of business, interacting with partner organisations, sub-contractors and potential customers.
What you will do
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Firmware requirements capture and management.
- FPGA design and analysis.
- Production of documentation for other engineers and evidence for design reviews.
- Development of FPGA test and FPGA integration plans.
- Perform system integration work with PCB designers and embedded software engineers.
- Support all firmware designs through the company firmware process - training will be given.
- Modification of existing firmware designs and test benches.
What we are looking for:
What you really must have
- Using FPGA technologies especially from either Xilinx, Microsemi (Actel) or Lattice and their tools.
- Advanced verification techniques using either VHDL or System Verilog / UVM.
- Specifying complex timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA place and route.
- Ability to analyse system level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements.
- A methodical approach to the full firmware design lifecycle, working to a structured firmware process such as RTCA DO-254 or similar.
- Experience of working on safety related firmware to IEC 61508 would be advantageous.
- De-bugging firmware designs and supporting verification and integration at hardware and system level alongside Software and Hardware Engineers.
- Making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities.
- Ability to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form.
- Familiarity with Siemens EDA FPGA development tools including HDL Designer and ModelSim / Questa is an advantage.
It would be nice if you had:
- Awareness of Safety, Security and other legislative constraints
- Engineering experience with electro-optic systems - e.g. cameras, thermal imagers and/or image processing systems/algorithms.
- Experience of mentoring more junior members of the team.
