Senior Firmware Engineer – FPGA/MCU, Lead & Mentor

TALENTMATE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE is seeking a Senior Engineer Firmware for Halcon to lead the design, development, integration, verification, and testing of advanced firmware for mission-critical defence systems. The role requires strong FPGA and microcontroller expertise and technical leadership to ensure high quality outcomes.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, guiding verification methods, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and certification processes such as DO-254.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in FPGA and/or microcontroller firmware development.
• Strong firmware design, coding, verification, validation and hardware integration experience.
• Thorough understanding of systems engineering processes and certification requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and verify firmware for FPGA and microcontroller embedded systems.
• Provide technical leadership on firmware architecture, standards, verification and certification.
• Lead design reviews, develop firmware specs, interface documents, and ensure best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive process improvements in firmware development.

Skills

FPGA firmware

Microcontroller firmware

Systems engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Job description

EDGE is seeking a Senior Engineer Firmware for Halcon to lead the design, development, integration, verification, and testing of advanced firmware for mission-critical defence systems. The role requires strong FPGA and microcontroller expertise and technical leadership to ensure high quality outcomes.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, guiding verification methods, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and certification processes such as DO-254.