FPGA Firmware Engineer - ContractLooking for an experienced and high performing contract Firmware 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. The role will be based at our client’s Harlow facility, and the successful candidate will report directly to the APNT Hardware Engineering Lead.Main Duties:The successful applicant will support the APNT Team across various programmes (both internally and Customer funded) and will involve the following main duties with VHDL Firmware: * Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards. * Create and manage architectures for firmware, mainly FPGAs * Understand, decompose and verify firmware requirements * Create FPGA design using VHDL and embedded C * Define and perform unit level and sub system level testing for embedded firmware * Create firmware design and test documents * Create Firmware Simulation Test Reports * Create Timing and Power Analysis Reports * Perform technical reviews of the documents and releaseCandidate Requirements:Essential: * Experience creating firmware architectures * Experience testing and verifying requirements * Experience with Matlab/Simulink * Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies * Ability to understand VHDL code * Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to othersDesirable: * Experience using the Vivado and Vitis design tools, or equivalent. * Experience delivering embedded firmware as part of a product * Knowledge of Embedded C * Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development lifecycle