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Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Junior Digital Hardware Engineer FPGA
Thales is at the forefront of the UK Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems, we are a world leader in sensors, communications, mission systems and in the fast-growing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) market; we are delivering Europe’s largest UAS programme. Our ISR division has over 40 years’ experience developing and delivering manned and unmanned airborne surveillance systems.
We now have an incredible opportunity within the ISR team for a Junior Digital Hardware Engineer to support complex firmware engineering within with defence, aerospace and autonomous systems. We are looking for recent graduates keen to do hands-on engineering or for more experienced graduates looking for the opportunity to take the next step in their career.
Role
The role will offer experience over a number of different product areas, encompassing everything from product design and development through to larger scale platform integration and will be focussed around the core skills associated with a Digital Hardware / Firmware Engineer, including the following: FPGA / VHDL hardware architecture, requirements specification, schematic capture, design, Firmware (FPGA / VHDL) development, verification, hardware integration, validation and design assurance activities.
Key responsibilities following training and development will include
- Design and develop firmware using Hardware Description Languages or High Level Synthesis Languages (Principally VHDL)
- Simulation and analysis
- Verify firmware using Hardware Description languages or Hardware Verification Languages
- Implementing designs and achieving timing closure
- Integration of firmware on the target hardware
- Test, measurement, debug and verification
- Technical assistance to production
Experience, skills and qualification required
- A relevant degree or equivalent in relevant engineering discipline (Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic, or Communications)
- Exposure/experience within highly regulated or industrial environments
- Enthusiasm for engineering and FPGA design in particular.
- Experience with Digital electronic design in hardware development language would be highly advantageous
- An understanding of the fundamentals of High speed digital design
What we can offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
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