Posted 17 days ago
Description
Lead Hardware Engineer
Based in Luton
12-month contract
Paying up to £70p/h (Inside IR35)
Please note - Due to the nature of the work, you'll be required to already hold or be eligible to obtain a high level of UK Security Clearance
Overview
Required to solve complex technical challenges involving high-speed digital design, FPGA-based architectures, signal processing, hardware integration and system qualification within a highly regulated defence environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop complex digital and mixed-signal hardware solutions for defence and aerospace applications.
- Define hardware architectures for FPGA, SoC and processor-based systems.
- Capture schematics and support PCB layout activities for high-speed, high-performance digital designs.
- Design and verify high-speed interfaces including DDR memory, PCIe, Ethernet and similar protocols.
- Integrate FPGA, processor, software and firmware components into complete system solutions.
- Perform design analysis, simulation, validation and verification activities.
- Support hardware bring-up, debugging and root-cause investigation at board and system level.
- Work closely with Systems, Firmware, Software, RF, Mechanical and Production Engineering teams.
- Support environmental, EMC/EMI and qualification testing in accordance with defence and aerospace standards.
- Produce technical documentation, design evidence and progress reporting in accordance with structured engineering lifecycles.
- Support customer demonstrations, integration activities, acceptance testing and trials.
Experience required
- Proven experience designing high-speed digital electronics within aerospace, defence or other safety/mission-critical industries.
- Strong background in FPGA and SoC-based hardware architectures (Xilinx, AMD, Intel/Altera or equivalent).
- Practical board-level debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, spectrum analysers and protocol analysers.
- Experience integrating hardware, firmware and software on complex embedded systems.
- Experience developing products to demanding EMC, EMI and environmental requirements.
- Experience designing complex multilayer PCBs incorporating: High-speed serial interfaces; High-performance processors; DDR memory subsystems & FPGA-based signal processing solutions.
- Knowledge of DO-254, DEF STAN, MIL-STD or equivalent aerospace and defence standards.
- Experience with FPGA signal processing architecture
