Senior Firmware; FPGA Engineer

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Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and thats why we offer you the flexibility to do whats important to you;

whether thats part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Become a Key Part Of a Team With a Proven Track Record For Delivering Firmware For a Wide Range Of Defence, Related Products. Typical Firmware Services Provided

• Architecture, requirements specification, design, verification and validation.
• Working in conjunction with systems, software and hardware engineers to develop electronic systems.

Projects involve using the latest industry class development tools for FPGA and system on a chip hardware technologies. Work is carried out to a structured firmware design process.

The role is based on our Manor Royal site in Crawley and can support a mix of on-site and remote working. There is a requirement to that periods of time to be spent at Customer sites and/or integration facilities.

As a People 1st Employer, we are passionate about providing you with opportunities to advance your engineering career and are committed to giving our employees the support they need to reach their professional goals. This includes support in submission of Professional Registration applications, funding membership of a professional body, and access to a wide variety of learning resources through our comprehensive e-Learning Engine.

We also offer development pathways towards roles such as Firmware Architect, Firmware Engineering Manager, or a recognised Thales Specialist or Expert.

Each successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of Firmware engineering in the defence and/or transportation and/or aerospace domain and will ideally have experience interfacing with external customers as well as internal stakeholders.

The role holder reports to the Firmware Team Lead. The key individual responsibilities are:

• Work as part of firmware teams to deliver firmware projects to agreed time, cost and quality
• Verify firmware using Hardware Verification Languages or Hardware Description languages
• Design firmware using Hardware Description Languages
• Enhancement of firmware related processes (documenting, scripting, reporting, process automation)
• Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams

Desired Knowledge, Qualifications And Experience

• Strong communications, verbally and in writing. A relevant degree (BEng, MEng, EngD, PhD) in electronics, supported by 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with or working towards chartered status.

Specialisation/knowledge In Some Of The Following

• Leading Firmware design/architecture
• Leading small team of firmware engineers
• Verification Test bench architecture with System Verilog or C++
• Verification Methodology:
  Advanced VHDL verification or OSVVM/UVVM
• Requirements Management: IBM Rationale DOORS
• Simulation of designs using simulator tool:
  Mentor Graphics Modelsim / Questasim
• Digital electronic design in hardware development languages: VHDL and either Verilog or System Verilog
• Implementation of complex designs using any vendor specific development tools
• Technologies: PCIe, Ethernet, Serial Comms, AXI4
• Object Orientated design Techniques
• Image processing…