Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

Harlow, on site full time

12-month contract – Inside IR35

SC needed (ideal but can start on BPSS)

The role

Our client is looking for an experienced and high performing contract Electronics Engineer to join a successful Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) team within the Global Sensors Mission Area, creating Digital GPS Anti-Jam Systems for the military market.

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

• Eligible or holder of current SC security clearance

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

Responsibilities

The successful applicant will support the APNT Team across various programmes (both internally and Customer funded) 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