Firmware Engineering Lead

Job Summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Firmware Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team focused on designing, developing, integrating, and testing firmware solutions for embedded and enterprise systems. This role offers hands-on experience across the full development lifecycle in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. Firmware at Mercury is considered as Register-Transfer Level (RTL) or programmable logic.

• Lead firmware development team in task planning and status:
  • Manage large projects or processes.
  • Limited oversight from manager.
  • Coaches, reviews, and delegates work for lower-level professionals.
  • Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures.
• Define firmware development plan, define firmware test plan, and design firmware architecture.
• Present project firmware status and design to senior leadership and customers.
• Support design teams in bring-up and system-level validation of products.
• Collaborate with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to enhance and support product development.
• Partner with test engineering, systems engineering, and customer support teams to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve customer issues.

• Bachelor's degree in relevant technical discipline.
• Typically requires 10+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience with Verilog and VHDL.
• Experience with AMD FPGAs and/or Altera FPGAs.
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• Preferred EW experience in radar technology.
• Preferred experience in high-speed ADC and DAC technologies
• Preferred experience in high density memories
• Familiar with lab equipment such as signal generator and spectrum analyzers.
• Candidates will need to possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work effectively both individually and collaboratively.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Salary Range for this position

• $87,100.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
• $97,600.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
• $ - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including: the role and related responsibilities; prior work experience; education, training, skills and certifications; internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles; geographic location; and alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including: bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions); health, life and disability insurance; company-paid holidays and time off; 401(k) retirement plan; discounted employee stock purchase plan; tuition reimbursement; and access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Mercury Systems is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran or marital status.

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