Principal FPGA Engineer

Company:
Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Join the team redefining defense technology. From engineering systems that save lives to leading programs that change the battlefield find your place in the future of defense.

Cyber Business

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams the Principal Firmware Engineer plays a critical role in shaping and influencing product design and development. By integrating firmware considerations from the earliest stages they help ensure that solutions are not only compliant with relevant standards but are also robust reliable and fit for purpose in demanding operational environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform requirements analysis and requirements derivation to generate understandable and robust firmware requirements from inbound (user and systems level) doing so provide feedback to the systems team regarding poorly written ambiguous or unverifiable inbound requirements.
• Produce high quality and robust Firmware designs and architectures to meet the Firmware requirements and Interface specifications.
• Produce design development and implementation documentation including specifications reports and proposals of a quality commensurate with its end use.
• Produce documentation to show requirement traceability including verification methodologies.
• Accurately estimates work of self and others; identifies cost-effective solutions in terms of both development time and materials; delivers predictably and increases teams ability to do the same.
• Ensure that the Firmware development process is conducted in accordance with the Firmware development plan.
• Requires only general direction to perform effectively; is not subject to supervision or close management.
• Generate inputs required for product level design reviews.
• Reviews and signs off significant technical documents; will often chair technical reviews for significant deliverables.
• Provides specialist knowledge and support to the wider engineering team; recognised as a domain expert inside the company and possibly with external bodies.
• Mentors and coaches less experienced engineers; shares knowledge willingly and constructively.
• Proposes and champions ideas for improvement that support innovation and make the engineering organisation more efficient.
• Actively look for opportunities to improve processes used in the Firmware development and propose changes. Implementing these changes where appropriate.
• The role may involve line management responsibility.
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual.
• Where requested provides feedback on firmware development status and cost to complete to the Project Manager and/or Engineering Project Lead (or equivalent)
• Undertake the role of firmware lead where this role technically manage a team of firmware engineers ensuring they have clear objectives with agreed realisation dates.

Required Experience Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering mathematical or science-based subject or equivalent experience.
• Highly organised self-managing able to manage multiple activities at any one time
• Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage effectively with all audiences/stakeholders at all levels in the organisation
• Strong understanding of risk management principles including risk assessment mitigation and acceptance processes.
• Fully Proficient in the full life cycle Firmware development demonstrated on more than one project.
• Fully Proficient in Firmware development using VHDL.
• Has a variety of engineering methods and techniques; applies and adapts these as necessary to create solutions.
• Proven experience with Engineering design methodologies. For example the V Model Requirements architecture detailed design Implementation Integration Test Validation & Verification.
• Ability to design for synchronous and asynchronous systems. For example System Synchronous Source Synchronous and Asynchronous systems.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to a team of Firmware engineers in the design and development of FPGAs.
• Thorough experience of using Xilinx Lattice Altera or Microsemi FPGAs and their associated development tool chains.
• Proficient in Verification.
• Good knowledge of FPGA EDA tools and tool…