Principal Firmware Engineer

Principal Firmware Engineer - FPGA, RF, DSP

#26-258

Cypress, California, United States

Job Summary:

Mercury Systems space and strategic weapons team has an opportunity for an experienced Firmware Engineer to join a collaborative, multi-disciplined engineering team focused on designing, developing, integrating, and testing firmware solutions for radar products. This role offers hands‑on experience across the full development lifecycle in a fast‑paced, mission‑driven environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and test firmware.
• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical discipline.
• Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Experience with Verilog and VHDL.
• Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• Previous work experience with AMD FPGAs and/or Altera FPGAs.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in EW electronic warfare), EA (electronic attack), radar simulation or radar testing
• Familiar with lab equipment such as signal generator and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

We are also hiring a Sr. Firmware Engineer for this team (4+ yrs experience). See req # 26-257.

Salary:

• $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; andaccess to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock‑based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/life balance (available based off location).

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.

As an equal opportunity employer, Mercury Systems is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact the number below for assistance.