Firmware Engineering Lead

Mercury Systems•Cypress, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.