Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

Holt Executive; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer, where your expertise in VHDL and FPGA development will contribute to cutting-edge avionics systems. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing innovative firmware solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the highest quality through rigorous verification processes. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology in the Defence industry, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in developing firmware using VHDL or Verilog.
• Experience with FPGA development tools and design flows.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop firmware using VHDL for avionics systems.
• Coordinate technical activities with project engineering leads.

Skills

VHDL

Verilog

FPGA development tools

Linux

scripting

High-Speed Serial protocols

communication skills

Education

Honours degree in Electronics Engineering

Tools

Mentor Graphics FPGA tools

ModelSim

Questa

Precision

ISE

Vivado

Quartus

Job description

Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

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/ documentation

Desirable

• 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 subject

This role could be based in Luton or Edinburgh

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