ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ENGINEERS x2 – CONTRACTS 6 MONTHS – COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Nr Portsmouth
On site requirement to be confirmed liklely 3 or 4 days per week
This is a senior technical role relating to the electronic aspects of hardware design for systems engineering. A highly experienced professional engineer with a depth and breadth of knowledge in Electronics Engineering who speaks and acts authoritatively on matters pertaining to their discipline, leading and applying the principles of Electronics Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle from requirement definition to system integration and customer acceptance into system support and disposal. Employs a depth and breadth of expertise relating to Electronics Systems Engineering to the most complex engineering problems across the whole Radar system.
AT THE COAL FACE TASKS / RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing support to the SDA regarding overall Radar System design.
- Responsible for defining and capturing digital requirements from board level to sub-system level.
- Provide digital techniques support to the SDA and techniques groups (RF, software, digits, mechanical, DO) at all stagers throughout the design life cycle.
- Provide support to digital techniques team throughout the design process ensuring adherence to established design protocols.
- Provide analysis of system architectures with a view to providing guidance on make/buy/COTS decisions.
- Define test and integration plans from board to system level.
- System Design Assurance – ensuring there is enough built in functionality to support design assurance. Also contributing to the generation of the system design assurance specification.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS / KNOWLEDE / PROVEN ABILITY
- Proven ability in digital electronics including FPGA development, high speed interfaces (such as serial FPDP, JESD204 etc) COTS hardware and PCB design.
- Proven ability in sub-system and System integration and test.
- Familiarity with Xilinx/AMD FPGA products and Vivado design tools
- Proven ability in the whole design process from requirements to design assurance and sign off.
- A solid understanding of radar operation, in particular Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars.
- Able to use AMD/Xilinx Vitis.
- Able to design with AMD/Xilinx Versal or Zynq Ultrascale plus devices.
- Matlab for digital processing analysis.
- MBSE for design capture.
- DOORS for document capture.
DESIRABLES
Radar system data analysis.
