Firmware Engineer

MERITUS Talent have partnered with one of the World's largest aerospace and defence organizations for the recruitment of a Firmware Engineer to join their Hampshire office

Firmware Engineer - Contract - Portsmouth - 65ph INSIDE IR35 - 12 Months - Hybrid

About the role

We are looking for a Firmware Engineer to join our customer in their Portsmouth office. You will join our Modems and Software Defined Radio group and report to the Engineering Manager of the project, delivering a new product to the UK MOD.

As the project is for UK MOD, you must be eligible for a UK Security Clearance.

The role will be in Portsmouth, UK. The role has a flexible working pattern and you will be required to be in office 60% of your time.

You will be an experienced firmware engineer with experience of working with Xilinx products. Within our team, you will work to generate, test and integrate code to support innovative solutions for software-defined modem technologies.

In particular, your skills will include:

Mandatory Skills:

• Understanding of DSP
• VHDL Encoding to a high standard in a Linux environment
• Xilinx Vivado experience, particularly use of block diagrams and non-project mode
• tcl scripts for configuring and connecting IP and building projects in the Vivado environment
• Verilog / SystemVerilog
• Git for version control
• Atlassian toolset (e.g. Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
• Agile or Scrum working environment

Beneficial Skills:

• Familiarity with Zynq Ultrascale RFSoCs e.g. use of AXI busses, associated IP
• Makefile, Linux shell, Jenkins Control scripts
• System and software modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect (SysML / UML)
• Python for test purposes
• SDR (Software Defined Radio)

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to live the values, work with passion and determination, able to work to tight deadlines in an environment of continuous improvement. The skills and experience suited to this role:

• HND or Bachelor of Engineering and typically 5+ years of professional experience
• Experience of using high level modelling languages (e.g. SysML, UML)
• Experience in using Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Familiarity of using agile methodologies in delivery is desireable
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• A background knowledge/interest of satellite communication systems/industry or Modem technology