Senior Systems Engineer NEW

Portsmouth, Hampshire
JAM Recruitment Ltd

2 Senior Systems Engineers

Inside IR35

81.05 per hour

6 months initial term

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, challenges, and issues associated with the domain. Designs, develops, promotes and shares discipline knowledge and capability for implementation across the business and programmes, providing authoritative guidance to others relating to area of expertise. Acts as design authority for designs that the role holder / team is undertaking. Liaises with other teams and disciplines to ensure a consistent approach across the whole radar system.

Typical duties include :

• 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.

Knowledge:

• Experience in digital electronics including FPGA development, high speed interfaces (such as serial FPDP, JESD204 etc) , COTS hardware and PCB design.
• Experience in sub-system and System integration and test.
• Familiarity with Xilinx/AMD FPGA products and Vivado design tools
• Experience in radar system data analysis.
• Experience 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.

Skills:

• Experience using AMD/Xilinx Vitis.
• Experience designing with AMD/Xilinx Versal or Zynq Ultrascale plus devices
• Matlab for digital processing analysis
• MBSE for design capture
• DOORS for document capture
• Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.