Contract Firmware Engineer

Location

Marlow, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom

Job description

A major Aerospace company are looking for a Contract Firmware Engineer within their Avionics division, to assist with the delivery of embedded products. The Contract Firmware Engineer will work on a variety of products including digital beam forming applications, radio and direction finding across both civil and military spaces.

Day to day responsibilities for the Contract Firmware Engineer will be:

• Development of architecture to fulfil system requirements
• Creation of design and test requirements
• RTL design and verification
• Production of high quality Documentation.
• Work across a multidisciplinary team to ensure successful product integration
• Hardware verification
• Adhere to design guides and coding standards
• Adhere to configuration standards
• Work package estimation
• Deliver on time and budget

The ideal Contract Firmware Engineer will have the following education, skills and experience:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering or similar relevant engineering discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in RTL Design and Verification (preferably VHDL) in either a product-development or IP-development role.
• A minimum of 3+ years’ experience of ideally either Xilinx Vivado/ISE or intel (Altera) Quartus Prime; or alternatively ASIC design team experience.
• Experience of Timing constraints creation, analysis and closure both FPGA on-chip and inter-device.
• Experience of configuration management in a team environment (Git, svn, etc.)

Highly Desirable:

• Scripting experience (eg. tcl, python, bash etc.)
• Signal Processing/DSP experience
• Defining sub-system architecture
• Experience deriving lower-level requirements from often limited information.
• Experience of DO-254 would be an advantage

We are looking for a Contract Firmware Engineer who is a strong team player, has good analytical and problem-solving skills, together with strong written and oral skills.

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity please apply, or call Lee Dymott on our Reading office number.

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Salary

£70 - £80 per hour