Mercury Systems

Firmware Engineering Lead

Mercury Systems$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant technical discipline
  • 10+ years relevant work experience
  • Proficiency in Verilog and VHDL
  • Experience with AMD and/or Altera FPGAs
  • Must obtain a government security clearance (U.S. citizens only)

Responsibilities

  • Lead firmware development team in project planning and status oversight
  • Define and execute firmware development and testing plans
  • Present firmware project status to senior leadership and customers
  • Support product design teams in validation and bring-up
  • Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams to enhance product development
  • Work with test engineering and customer support to troubleshoot issues

Benefits

  • Hands-on experience in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
  • Engagement in the full firmware development lifecycle
  • Opportunity to influence policies and practices within the team
  • Collaboration with diverse engineering disciplines
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies in firmware design
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

Mercury Systems is seeking a Firmware Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team focused on designing, developing, integrating, and testing firmware solutions for embedded and enterprise systems. This role offers hands-on experience across the full development lifecycle in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. Firmware at Mercury is considered as Register-Transfer Level (RTL) or programmable logic.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead firmware development team in task planning and status:
    • Manage large projects or processes.
    • Limited oversight from manager.
    • Coaches, reviews, and delegates work for lower-level professionals.
    • Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures.
  • Define firmware development plan, define firmware test plan, and design firmware architecture.
  • Present project firmware status and design to senior leadership and customers.
  • Support design teams in bring-up and system-level validation of products.
  • Collaborate with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to enhance and support product development.
  • Partners with test engineering, systems engineering, and customer support teams to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve customer issues.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant technical discipline.
  • Typically requires 10+ years relevant work experience.
  • Experience with Verilog and VHDL.
  • Experience with AMD FPGAs and/or Altera FPGAs.
  • "This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens."

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
  • Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
  • Preferred EW experience in radar technology.
  • Preferred experience in high-speed ADC and DAC technologies
  • Preferred experience in high density memories
  • Familiar with lab equipment such as signal generator and spectrum analyzers.
  • Candidates will need to possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work effectively both individually and collaboratively.
  • Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.
  • Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

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"This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

About Mercury Systems

Mercury Systems is a technology company that specializes in the design and manufacture of open architecture, secure processing systems and subsystems for commercial, defense, and intelligence applications. The company's products and solutions are used in a variety of applications, including radar, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and cyber security. Mercury Systems was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
Learn more about Mercury Systems
Size
2,294 employees
Market Cap
$2.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$79.2 million
Founded
1981
5 Year Trend
+19.3%
Revenue
$841.6 million
NASDAQ

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