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Role: FPGA Engineers
Location: Malvern
Duration: 6 Months
Pay rates: £400 - £475 per day
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Overall Purpose of the Job
* Contribute to all stages in the specification, design, development, integration, test and certification, fielding and support of navigation and cryptographic devices, following a rigorous engineering lifecycle.
* Specify and develop FPGA/ASIC solutions
* Interact with other engineers working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver products and customer solutions.
Key Accountabilities
* Responsible to Project Design Authority for all firmware related activities
* Plans/structures work effectively, including breaking down problems into manageable work packages.
* Ability to accurately cost work and manage risk
* Produces written documentation (including presentation material) of technical work in accordance with Project requirements.
Challenges
* Rapid learning of current military-specific and civil secure technologies in support of research and products.
* Innovation in the application/integration of digital hardware technologies to build novel secure systems
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
* Ability to write and debug VHDL.
* Experience designing and implementing complex firmware solutions in CPLD and FPGA using ModelSim, Synplify, ISE.
* Experience of design and implementation of high-speed of digital processing solutions and systems in FPGA e.g. system-on-chip, embedded processors, high speed interfaces
* Experience of working in a rigorous engineering environment using configuration management and change management processes/tools.
* Ability to prepare and undertake test and verification of FPGA/ASIC
* Good degree in electronics, electrical engineering or similar
* Good verbal and written Technical English communications skills.
Desirable Experience
* Experience of GNSS, Galileo security chain and/or PRS receivers.
* Knowledge of RF and radio signal performance/propagation issues.
* Knowledge/experience and knowledge of crypto security design including crypto algorithms, anti-tamper technologies etc
* Experience of specifying, designing, verifying and testing ASICs
* Ability to engineer software to support system development/testing in appropriate languages including C++, C and assembly language.
* Experience using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and Expedition PCB.
* Experience of using DOORS.
* Ability to use supporting tools such as Matlab for solution modelling and verification.
Essential Personal Qualities and Behavioural Requirements
* Innovative
* Self-starter, shows initiative
* Offers solutions to problems
* Enthusiastic team player
* Driven to deliver great results
* Strong risk awareness
* Quality conscious
* Able to follow processes and procedures
* Present a good impression of a QinetiQ professional