Senior Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

Harlow, on site full time

12-month contract – Inside IR35

SC needed (ideal but can start on BPSS)

Our client is looking for an experienced and high performing contract Electronics Engineer to join a successful Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) team within the Global Sensors Mission Area, creating Digital GPS Anti-Jam Systems for the military market.

• Experience creating top level Design architectures
• Experience testing and verifying requirements
• Experience in working with DSP, Micro, Memory devices, ADCs, DACs, Power supply
• Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies
• Ability to understand VHDL code
• Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to others
• An openness to learn and try new techniques
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment - working independently or with others to overcome obstacles
• Capable of analysing and reporting on technical data
• Eligible or holder of current SC security clearance

• Experience using the Vivado and Vitis design tools, or equivalent
• Experience working with the Xilinx chip family
• Experience delivering embedded firmware as part of a product
• Knowledge of Embedded C
• Experience creating embedded system architectures
• Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development lifecycle
• Knowledge of defence engineering / airborne standards
• Working with Model Based System Engineering tools such as Matlab / Simulink

The successful applicant will support the APNT Team across various programmes (both internally and Customer funded) and will involve the following main duties within the product development :

• Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards.
• Create and manage architectures for Digital Electronics and firmware (mainly FPGAs)
• Understand, decompose and verify Design requirements
• Create FPGA design using VHDL and embedded C
• Define and perform unit level and sub system level testing for embedded firmware
  
  Create design documents (HW +Firmware)
• Create Test Documents
• Create Firmware Simulation Test Reports
• Create Timing and Power Analysis Reports
• Work alongside our embedded system, software and other electronic design engineers
• Perform technical reviews of the documents and release