About the role
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
Principal FPGA Engineer
Location: Crawley, Reading or Bristol - Hybrid
Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.
ISR is a highly complex product development environment, focusing on delivering cutting edge products including:
Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identification of threats even in busy electronic transmission environments
Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.
We’re recruiting for a Principal FPGA Engineer as part of a sustained expansion of the ISR team due to key programme awards in Electronic Warfare.
We are looking for successful candidates to have demonstrable experience of Firmware within safety critical environments, defence experience is advantageous but not an essential requirement. You will ideally have experience interfacing with external customers as well as internal stakeholders and have held responsibility for firmware/FPGA development within complex systems.
The key responsibilities will including
Lead firmware development and deliver firmware projects to agreed time, cost and quality
Verify firmware using Hardware Verification Languages or Hardware Description languages
Design firmware using Hardware Description Languages
Enhancement of firmware related processes (documenting, scripting, reporting, process automation)
Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
Desired knowledge, qualifications and experience
Strong communications, verbally and in writing with A relevant degree (B…
