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Date Posted

2025-03-19

Country

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type

Unspecified

Senior Firmware Engineer

Harlow

About Us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Our Weapons business works ethically, to provide complex weapons systems to customers. We equip the Royal Air Force with capabilities such as AMRAAM and Paveway IV precision guided munitions: the Royal Navy with our Phalanx close-in missile defence system and the British Army with Javelin portable anti-tank guided weapon system.

Our Sensors business has a long heritage of providing leading solutions across different domains. From navigation and GPS anti-jamming systems to air traffic radars and solutions for air traffic management, were equipping our customers for security across air, land, and sea.

Its a team effort at Raytheon UK where everyones role is of equal importance. We have wonderful teams of support functions enabling our delivery teams to do the best work of their lives. Our head office heroes are critical to success of the business.

The role

Raytheon UK is looking for an experienced Hardware / Firmware engineer to join Raytheons Air Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) team in Harlow, reporting directly to an Engineering Manager.

The Senior Firmware / Hardware Engineer support the hardware and firmware development of RUKs ATMS products, working collaboratively with other engineering disciplines in the ATMS business. It represents a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced digital engineer to really make their mark on a broad and varied range of ATMS developments.

Above all, this is the ideal opportunity for a self-starting senior engineer who wants to work on exciting technology and product development projects in a collaborative and well-established environment.

This Role Includes

• Working effectively within a multi-disciplined design team
• Assessing customer requirements, interpretation and creation of Design Specifications
• Deriving detailed Hardware and or firmware requirements for complex systems.
• Conduct and direct Design, commissioning, circuit debug and fault diagnosis through the project lifecycle
• Electronic Schematic capture, PCB Layout review
• Modelling and simulations of functions
• Ability to Design to Cost and schedule
• Document Verification and Qualification of products to industry and customer standards
• Prepare technical documents & reports
  
  

• Qualifications and experience in Electronical Engineering or a related discipline
• Experience of VHDL based FPGA design and verification techniques.
• Good and demonstrable problem-solving skills with practical laboratory test, circuit build & test measurement experience
• Practical experience of FPGA technology from Xilinx, Altera and/or Actel.
• Ability to de-bug and test new hardware and firmware designs and supporting module and system related test, verification and integration.
• Good problem-solving skills, willing to take ownership as well as positively contributing within cross-discipline teams.
• Experience in simulation tool (i.e. Matlab Simulink or Spice)
• Good communication skills. Ability to tailor communications to level and audience at all levels.
• Eligible or current holder of SC security clearance.
  
  

• Experience using the Mentor Graphics tool suit; DxDesigner, Constraints Editor, HyperLynx tools such as Signal Integrity & Power Analyser, SystemVision simulation or equivalents would be advantageous.
• Proven analytical skills in circuit simulation.
• Experience of working with Industry standard toolsets (e.g. DOORs).
  
  

• BEng/ MSc / MEng /PhD in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar, with appropriate specialisation in FPGA/Firmware/digital design techniques and embedded development. Candidates with other qualifications and relevant experience will be considered.
  
  

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)
  
  

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media

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