Firmware Engineering Lead

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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