Senior Electronics Engineer

Our client, a Defence and Security supplier is looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join them on a contract basis at their site in Harlow.

• Due to the nature of the role, applicants must hold the British nationality and be eligible for SC Clearance.
• Full time onsite in Harlow, Essex.
• Inside IR35, competitive market rates.
• 12-month contract.

Responsibilities

The successful applicant will support the Team across various programmes and will involve the following main duties within the product development:

• Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards.
• Create and manage architectures for Digital Electronics and firmware (mainly FPGAs)
• Understand, decompose and verify Design requirements
• Create FPGA design using VHDL and embedded C
• Define and perform unit level and sub system level testing for embedded firmware
• Create design documents (HW +Firmware)
• Create Test Documents
• Create Firmware Simulation Test Reports
• Create Timing and Power Analysis Reports
• Work alongside our embedded system, software and other electronic design engineers
• Perform technical reviews of the documents and release

Skills and experience

• Experience creating top level Design architectures
• Experience testing and verifying requirements
• Experience in working with DSP, Micro, Memory devices, ADCs, DACs, Power supply
• Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies
• Ability to understand VHDL code
• Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to others
• An openness to learn and try new techniques
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment - working independently or with others to overcome obstacles
• Capable of analysing and reporting on technical data

Desirable

• Experience using the Vivado and Vitis design tools, or equivalent
• Experience working with the Xilinx chip family
• Experience delivering embedded firmware as part of a product
• Knowledge of Embedded C
• Experience creating embedded system architectures
• Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development lifecycle
• Knowledge of defence engineering / airborne standards
• Working with Model Based System Engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink