What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Firmware Engineer position at Mercury Systems?
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.
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
- University degree in relevant technical discipline.
- Typically requires a minimum of 4 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; may be less with a higher-level degree.
- 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:
- University degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
- Familiar with lab equipment such as signal generator and spectrum analyzers.
- Experience with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.