Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance *minimum 5 years UK residency*

Working: Possible Flexible and some remote working potentials.

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke simulator solutions?

Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!

Role purpose:

Technical leadership and oversight of Firmware/FPGA development processes, and the Firmware/FPGA requirements, architectures, designs and implementations across multiple projects within the UK-based engineering organisation of the Cyber Business Unit.

Experience needed:

• Expert history of FPGA module design and implementation.
• Expert experience of using one or more of Xilinx, Lattice, Altera or Microsemi FPGAs and their associated development tool chains.
• Expert experience of FPGA firmware testing, test tools and design for test.
• Expert knowledge and experience of timing and constraints analysis and timing closure.
• Exposure to FPGA separation techniques such as Xilinx's Isolation Design Flow.
• Expert knowledge of issues surrounding designs containing multiple clock domains and robust solutions.
• Ability to read, interpret and understand hardware schematics.
• Experience of version control, change control and bug tracking tools and systems, including administration tasks.
• Experience of defining and rolling out best practice firmware development processes/lifecycles.
• Experience of defining and rolling out continuous integration and automated test tools and frameworks.
• Experience of DOORS and Enterprise Architect.
• Experience of deploying coding standards for defence, space or air worthiness techniques and standards such as MISRA.

Desirable:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.

• Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject desirable.

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