Senior Firmware Architect for HV Power Systems

Advanced Energy; Arundel; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Energy in the United Kingdom seeks a senior firmware architect to lead the design of next-gen high voltage power supply platforms. You will drive digital architecture, C++ software, and VHDL elements for MCU/FPGA based systems.

You will work with hardware, software, and test teams to ensure robust interfaces, rigorous testing and quality across the product lifecycle, from concept through production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in digital architecture and embedded systems.
• Ability to decompose systems into hardware, software and firmware subsystems (MCU/FPGA choices).
• C/C++ on embedded applications, with some VHDL design experience.
• Debugging with JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Familiarity with STM32, FreeRTOS, agile, CI/CD, Git and GoogleTest.

Responsibilities

• Participates in all phases of the development life cycle—from requirements to test of all products.
• Applies engineering principles to develop digital architecture/design for the target application.
• Ownership of advanced digital architecture and design.
• Decomposes system requirements with other Engineers and Program Management.
• Conducts code and design reviews of team members work products.
• Collaborates with cross functional members to develop interfaces between hardware and software and performance requirements.
• Provides engineering support to safety, QA, production and customers.

Skills

C/C++ on embedded applications

VHDL design experience

JTAG debugging

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Arm-based MCUs

FPGA

Unit and Integration Tests

CI/CD

Git

FreeRTOS

GoogleTest

Bash scripting

PKI/PGP desired

STM32

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

STM32

FPGA

VHDL

JTAG debuggers

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

GoogleTest

Git

CI/CD

Bash scripting

Job description

Advanced Energy in the United Kingdom seeks a senior firmware architect to lead the design of next-gen high voltage power supply platforms. You will drive digital architecture, C++ software, and VHDL elements for MCU/FPGA based systems.

You will work with hardware, software, and test teams to ensure robust interfaces, rigorous testing and quality across the product lifecycle, from concept through production.