Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Firmware Architect
Glasgow – Hybrid (1-2 days a week on-site)
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.
Our central Firmware team provides integral support across several of our internal business domains, providing critical strategic, requirement and delivery activities. We are recruiting for a Principal Firmware Engineer/Firmware Architect to join us and become a key part of a team with a proven track record for delivering firmware. This role will be responsible for Firmware across our development programmes at Glasgow.
Typical Firmware services provided include:
* Architecture, requirements specification, design, verification and validation.
* Working in conjunction with systems, software and hardware engineers to develop electronic systems.
* Projects involve using the latest industry class development tools for FPGA and SoC hardware technologies.
Key responsibilities
* Leading firmware teams to deliver firmware projects to agreed time, cost and quality.
* Architect firmware designs to promote re-useable firmware development.
* Verifying firmware using Hardware Verification Languages or Hardware Description languages.
* Designing firmware using Hardware Description Languages.
* Enhancement of firmware related processes (documenting, scripting, reporting, process automation).
* Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams.
* Work package management of firmware projects.
Desired knowledge, qualifications and experience
We are looking for the successful candidate to hold a relevant degree (BEng, MEng, EngD, PhD) in electronics or equivalent. Additional membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with or working towards chartered status would be advantageous and supported.
Specialisation/knowledge in some of the following:
* Verification Test bench architecture with System Verilog or C++.
* Verification Methodology: Advanced VHDL verification or OSVVM/UVVM.
* Requirements Management: IBM Rationale DOORS.
* Simulation of designs using simulator tool: Mentor Graphics Modelsim/Questasim.
* Digital electronic design in hardware development languages: VHDL and either Verilog or System Verilog.
* Implementation of complex designs using any vendor specific development tools.
* Object Orientated design Techniques.
* Image processing techniques and algorithms.
* Algorithm development using development tool: MatLab.
* Linux development environments.
Security Clearance Statement
This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.
What we can offer
We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets, and relocation support can be provided if required.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.
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