Job Description

£75.00 per hour Umbrella

£56.70 per hour PAYE

Full Time

12 Month Contract Initially

Portsmouth – hybrid

Due to the nature of this position, active SC Security Clearance is required at application.

Applicants must meet any/all requirements of ITAR and Export Compliance Regulations.

About the role

We are looking for a Firmware Engineer to join Our Clients team based in Portsmouth. You will join Our Clients 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 based at Our Clients premises 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 clients 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 our clients 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

About Us

Our Client is a global leader in Space. They provide the smarts, the innovation and the capability for military and commercial telecommunications, and to design and build Earth observation and sensing satellites and services globally. They design, build and deliver integrated military satellite communications to the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the UAE with solutions that meet customer requirements, keeping troops and military assets safe, secure and connected.

If this role is of interest and you meet the above criteria, then please apply immediately