What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Firmware Engineer - FPGA, RF, DSP position at Mercury Systems?
Job Summary:
Mercury Systems space and strategic weapons team has 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 6 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 obtaina 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 Sr. Firmware Engineer for this team (4 yrs exper). See req # 26-257