Firmware Engineer

Consilium Recruit are proudly supporting a leading global engineering solutions provider who are working in partnership with some of the world s most influential names in the Aerospace, Defence, Automotive, Tech, Energy, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Rail and Semi-Conductor industries.
We are seeking a number of Firmware Engineers to join their team on a permanent or contract basis. You will work on a hybrid working pattern with the head office based in the Bedfordshire area, where site presence is required 3 days per week.
Salary: GBP Negotiable + an excellent set of benefits including:

• Highly competitive salary / hourly rate
• 185 hours of annual leave
• Matched Pension of up to 8% (salary sacrifice option available)
• Life Insurance
• Smart Health
• Medicash Health Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexi Time
• Enhanced Maternity Policy

The Role:

You will be part of a team who are actively engaged in a critical role to support defence programmes to develop embedded low level software and firmware for complex digital systems.
Key responsibilities include:

• Working closely with hardware and software teams for integrating firmware into a variety of products.
• Derivation of detailed Firmware requirements and architecture from system requirements
• FPGA development including VHDL design, verification and integration.

The Person

The Firmware Engineer will specialise in the delivery of robust coding that integrates into systems as part of defence products that include land, air and naval platforms.

You will be self-starter with the ability to utilise your experience and knowledge within software development to produce safety critical, low level code where precision and security is imperative.

Experience Required for the Firmware Engineer role:

• Degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Experience in development of low level software ideally in a security cleared environment.
• Experience in FPGA architecture e.g. Xilinx.
• Either hold current SC or be eligible to gain security clearance (5yrs UK residence).

To apply or for more information on the Firmware Engineer role please contact Tom Duckett at Consilium Recruit