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Role: FPGA Engineer (CEMA)
Location: Bristol(Hybrid)
Duration: 6 months
Inside IR35 : Umbrella

About Our Client

Our client is a leading global aerospace, defense, and security company specializing in delivering complex, mission-critical solutions. With a strong heritage in engineering and innovation, they provide essential services across aviation, marine, land, and nuclear sectors, supporting governments, armed forces, and commercial clients worldwide. Renowned for their commitment to safety, sustainability, and technological advancement, our client plays a vital role in ensuring operational excellence for their customers. Join them and be part of a team that drives innovation and delivers cutting-edge solutions in some of the world's most demanding environments.

About the Role:

TWe're looking for a driven, flexible and passionate FPGA Engineer with experience of CEMA to join us in our client's Land CEMA focus area to support delivery of client's in-service projects.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior FPGA Engineer you will be responsible for:

Working with our delivery teams, supporting the outsourcing of work, assessing the credibility and completeness of our suppliers work packages

As the programmes mature, increasing environment complexity, working with multi-discipline teams and our suppliers to create compliant CEMA solutions.
Understanding and assessing FPGA delivery timescales and risk for our CEMA activities

Essential Skills & Experience:

Knowledge / Experience of developing / modelling / simulating software in at least one of the following areas:
RF telecommunications,
waveforms,
OSI model,
SIGINT,
EW
VHDL
VERILOG Experience with SDR architecture
Agile development methodologies.
C#, C, C++, Python and Database architecture.Desirable Experience

XML
Networked systems
JICD
Restful and/or RPC API
Library agnostic code development
Geospatial engines
Cloud containers / Docker
OPEN CPI Application/Component and Platform development
Experience of Dev Ops

Please apply if you want to be part of a leading global defence, and security company that delivers complex, mission-critical solutions

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