Senior​/Principal Firmware Engineer​/Firmware Architect

Position: Senior/Principal Firmware Engineer/ Firmware Architect
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** Firmware Architect
** remote type Hybrid    locations

Belfast    time type

Full time    posted on Posted 20 Days Ago    time left to apply

End Date:
April 25, 2025 (8 days left to apply)    job requisition idR
0259267

Location:

Belfast, 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 Architect  Belfast – Hybrid
** Our central Firmware team provides integral support across several of our internal business domains, providing critical strategic, requirement and delivery activities. The central Firmware capability provides opportunity to work on diverse portfolio of projects, these domains vary and can cover Aerospace/Avionics, Optronics, Intelligence, Communication and Underwater System.

We are recruiting for a Principal Firmware Engineer/Firmware Architect to join us and become a key part of a team with a proven track record for delivering firmware. This role will be responsible for Firmware across our development programmes ical Firmware services provide include:
* 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 holder reports to the Firmware Capability Lead.
** Key responsibilities
** As a Firmware Architect you will be responsible for:
* Leading firmware teams to deliver firmware projects to agreed time, cost and quality
* Architect firmware designs to promote re-useable firmware development.
* Verifying firmware using Hardware Verification Languages or Hardware Description languages
* Designing firmware using Hardware Description Languages
* Enhancement of firmware related processes (documenting, scripting, reporting, process automation)
* Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
* Work package management of firmware projects
** Desired knowledge, qualifications and experience
** We are looking for the successful candidate to hold s relevant degree (BEng, MEng, EngD, PhD) in electronics or equivalent. Additional membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with or working towards chartered status would be advantageous and supported

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
* Object Orientated design Techniques
* Image processing techniques and algorithms
* Algorithm development using development tool:
Mat Lab
* Linux development environments
** Security Clearance Statement
** This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful…