Senior Firmware Engineer

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Senior Firmware Engineer

Harlow

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At Raytheon UK we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer we are dedicated to fuelling innovation nurturing talent and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment abundant opportunities for professional development and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together we are not just advancing technology; were building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe providing defence solutions across all domains: land sea air space and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales) Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland) and Harlow Gloucester and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Raytheon UK is looking for an experienced Hardware / Firmware engineer to join Raytheons Air Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) team in Harlow reporting directly to an Engineering Manager.

The Senior Firmware / Hardware Engineer support the hardware and firmware development of RUKs ATMS products working collaboratively with other engineering disciplines in the ATMS business. It represents a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced digital engineer to really make their mark on a broad and varied range of ATMS developments.

Above all this is the ideal opportunity for a selfstarting senior engineer who wants to work on exciting technology and product development projects in a collaborative and wellestablished environment.

This role includes:

• Working effectively within a multidisciplined design team
• Assessing customer requirements interpretation and creation of Design Specifications
• Deriving detailed Hardware and or firmware requirements for complex systems.
• Conduct and direct Design commissioning circuit debug and fault diagnosis through the project lifecycle
• Electronic Schematic capture PCB Layout review
• Modelling and simulations of functions
• Ability to Design to Cost and schedule
• Document Verification and Qualification of products to industry and customer standards
• Prepare technical documents & reports

Essential Skills:

• Qualifications and experience in Electronical Engineering or a related discipline
• Experience of VHDL based FPGA design and verification techniques.
• Good and demonstrable problemsolving skills with practical laboratory test circuit build & test measurement experience
• Practical experience of FPGA technology from Xilinx Altera and/or Actel.
• Ability to debug and test new hardware and firmware designs and supporting module and system related test verification and integration.
• Good problemsolving skills willing to take ownership as well as positively contributing within crossdiscipline teams.
• Experience in simulation tool (i.e. Matlab Simulink or Spice)
• Good communication skills. Ability to tailor communications to level and audience at all levels.
• Eligible or current holder of SC security clearance.

Desired Skills:

• Experience using the Mentor Graphics tool suit; DxDesigner Constraints Editor HyperLynx tools such as Signal Integrity & Power Analyser SystemVision simulation or equivalents would be advantageous.
• Proven analytical skills in circuit simulation.
• Experience of working with Industry standard toolsets (e.g. DOORs).

Required Education/Experience:

• BEng/ MSc / MEng /PhD in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar with appropriate specialisation in FPGA/Firmware/digital design techniques and embedded development. Candidates with other qualifications and relevant experience will be considered.

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• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday statutory public holidays plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days 37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5 company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes including Health Cashplan Dental and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

• 37hr working week although hours may vary depending on role job requirement or sitespecific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday start your weekend early!
• Remote hybrid and site based working opportunities dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output not time spent at desk focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington Virginia USA but with over 180000 employees globally across every continent RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industryleading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35000 jobs across 13 UK sites RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over 2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4000 suppliers across England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. Were investing in all corners of the country supporting 29040 jobs in England 3040 in Northern Ireland 1900 in Scotland and 1600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity color religion gender sexual orientation or identity national origin age disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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