My client have an exciting role for a Digital Systems Design Engineer to join their expanding team.
They are involved in the design and manufacture of advanced electronics products and systems. The company operates internationally in the communications, defence and government services market, and is established as a world-leader in digital signal processing on embedded systems.
Primary roles:
Implementation of high-speed signal processing designs in FPGA.
Signal processing architecture development.
Formulating hardware and development timescale estimates.
Key skills:
You will be degree qualified with some post-graduate experience, preferably in communications and/or defence systems design, and will be able to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and experience in most of the following areas:
High-speed FPGA design using VHDL (Xilinx and/or Altera).
VHDL simulation (ModelSim).
VHDL synthesis for FPGA (any of Mentor, Synplicity, XST, Quartus, etc).
Hardware/board design.
Embedded processors (NIOS/NIOS-II, MicroBlaze/PicoBlaze, Xilinx PowerPC).
A working knowledge of one or more of the following areas would be an advantage:
Matlab
Signal processing algorithms and architectures (FFT, filterbanks, multirate filtering, image processing).
Physical layer communications (modulation/demodulation, equalisation, coding/decoding, satcoms, mobile).
Defence systems (radar, sonar, SIGINT, EW).
The position requires very close working with the commercial and the engineering teams; consequently, the candidate must have the knowledge and the interpersonal skills to be able to fit into a very focussed group of people.
The successful person will be creative and energetic, and have the drive and enthusiasm to achieve their objectives. He/she must also have the flexibility to be able to adapt to working in a fast-moving SME environment.
This role offers a challenging opportunity for the right candidate in this rapidly expanding company. | 
Contact
Stacy Parker
 on 01260 299945 |
