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 tool...