Firmware Engineer

Location:

Crawley, United Kingdom In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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 that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s 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.
** Firmware (FPGA) Engineer
**** Crawley (Minimum 3 days onsite)
**** Our Opportunity:
** 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 SoC hardware technologies. Work is carried out to a structured firmware design process.

The role is based at our Thales UK site – Crawley and supports hybrid working (typically 3days on-site). Depending on the specific projects, specific roles may require periods of time to be spent at Customer sites and/or integration facilities.

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 Capability Lead. The key individual responsibilities are:
*** Deliver firmware projects to agreed time, cost and quality
* Architect firmware designs to promote re-useable firmware development.
* 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
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* About You:

** We would love to hear from you if you have:
* Strong communications skills- verbal and written.
* 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:
*** 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, OpenCPI
* Object Orientated design Techniques
* Image processing techniques and algorithms
* Algorithm development using development tool:  Mat Lab
* Linux development environments
** The successful candidate will be someone who**:
* Is a team player with a “can-do” attitude that performs effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment and promotes the values of inclusiveness and diversity
* Is confident in their ability to help solve complex problems, asks challenging questions to develop their understanding, and suggests new ideas to further our product offering and increase our added value
* Is a self-starter, with an…