Senior Firmware Engineer in Southampton

Hybrid 2/3 days on site - Locations: Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Luton, Newcastle or Southampton.

Leading engineering solutions provider, with a strong history in supporting the product lifecycle requirements of high-tech industries. As a trailblazer in offshore product development engineering, we stand as one of the most extensive engineering service providers serving a variety of industry sectors.

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.
• Providing progress reports.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

• At least 5 years experience 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) ISE design flow and third-party synthesis tools.
• Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements.
• De-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware and system level.
• A good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software.
• 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.
• Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical firmware, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL A or B.
• Experience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools.
• Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry.
• Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs.
• Independent verification using VHDL or SystemVerilog / UVM.
• Familiarity with latest FPGA device families.
• Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations.

Qualifications:

• Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject.
• UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance.
• Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage.