We have Exciting opportunities for Senior / Principal Firmware Engineers and Lead FPGA Engineers to work on Military Aviation products. These positions can be based in Luton or Edinburgh.

We are looking for people with proven expertise in FPGA design using VHDL / Verilog.

Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer:

• Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
• Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
• Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
• Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements
• Independent verification using VHDL
• Experience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools
• De-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
• and system level
• A good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software
• Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities.
• Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations

Lead FPGA Engineer:

• Proven experience in FPGA engineering management and delivery of projects
• Excellent communicator and able to provide clear direction to FPGA teams
• Ability to manage complex situations with sound judgement and the ability to balance conflicting challenges
• Commercial and business awareness
• Experience of working across the full life cycle
• Familiarity with latest FPGA device families and verification methodologies
• Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
• Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
• Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.
• Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed FPGA requirements
• Independent verification using VHDL
• Experience of FPGA requirements capture and requirements management tools
• De-bugging FPGA designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware and system level
• A good understanding of FPGA version control and revision control software
• Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for FPGA design activities.
• Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations
• Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities
• Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
• Linux and scripting experience
• Practical experience with agile methodology
• Experience in writing technical reports/documentation

Due to Security Requirements these roles are open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY