Lead High Speed Digital & Hardware Design Engineer

Stevenage
6 months ago
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Lead High Speed Digital & Hardware Design Engineer

Carbon60 is seeking a highly skilled High Speed Digital Design Engineer to join their defence client's team in Stevenage. As part of a large group of analogue and digital electronics design engineers, you will be responsible for the electronics design and development of high-speed MPSoC FPGA and AI hardware solutions targeting SDR, radar signal processing, and sensor fusion applications.

Responsibilities

Support the Technical Lead/Architect in collaboration with the systems, software, firmware, mechanical, and production teams to specify elegant and optimised solutions that satisfy customer needs.
Be responsible for the detailed design of the high-speed digital aspects, as well as leading all the other electronics design activity through the full product development lifecycle.
Develop elegant hardware architectures through detailed understanding and collaboration with various teams.
Configure and document designs to a high professional standard.Required Skills and Qualifications

Extensive experience in complex, high-speed digital electronics design.
Proficiency in VHDL to support board-level test and debug.
Proficiency in C, C++, or Python to support board-level test and debug.
Experience in MPSoC FPGA, DDR and Flash memory, and high-speed serial interconnect design.
Familiarity with DSP concepts for SDR, radar signal processing, and optical sensors.
Strong academic background to support this intellectually demanding role.
Excellent ability to configure and document designs to a high professional standard.
Strong desire to drive collaboration and ensure successful delivery.Location: Stevenage
Clearance: Security Clearance - SC
Duration: 12 months
Pay rate: Umbrella £58 per hour
Work Structure: Full time onsite

If you are interested, please apply directly. For more information, please email

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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