Senior Firmware Engineer - FPGA design

Job Summary:

Mercury Systems space and strategic weapons team have an opportunity for an experienced Firmware Engineer to join a collaborative, multi-disciplined engineering team focused on designing, developing, integrating, and testing firmware solutions for radar products. This role offers hands-on experience across the full development lifecycle in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and test firmware.
• Support design teams in bring-up and system-level validation of products.
• Collaborate with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to enhance and support product development.
• Partner with test engineering, systems engineering, and customer support teams to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve customer issues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical discipline.
• Typically requires a minimum of 4 years of related experience.
• Experience with Verilog and VHDL.
• Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• Previous work experience with AMD FPGAs and/or Altera FPGAs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in EW electronic warfare), EA (electronic attack), radar simulation or radar testing
• Familiar with lab equipment such as signal generator and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

We are also hiring a Principal Firmware Engineer for this team. See req # 26-258.

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

Our Culture

We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

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