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Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

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Our 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/ documentationDesirable

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 subjectThis role could be based in Luton or Edinburgh

Due to security requirements this role is open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY

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