Full-time

Principal Firmware Engineer

Posted by ARM • Granton, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

📍 Granton, City of Edinburgh 🕒 March 03, 2026

About the Role

Principal Firmware Engineer

Edinburgh

12-month contract

Paying up to £75p/h (inside IR35)

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior or Principal Firmware Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team delivering advanced digital systems within the Aerospace, Defence, and Security sector.

At Senior or Principal level, you will also provide technical leadership, supporting the delivery of work across multiple engineers while contributing to process improvement and best practice development across FPGA/Firmware teams.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop innovative VHDL-based FPGA architectures
Apply advanced verification techniques using VHDL or SystemVerilog / UVM
Work with currentFPGA technologies from:
Xilinx
Intel (Altera)
Microsemi (semiconductor manufacturer)
Develop and integrate high-speed interfaces, including PCIe, DDR3, Ethernet and JESD
Analyse system-level documentation to derive detailed f...

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