Senior Electronics Engineer

Harlow

1 month ago

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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

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