Senior / Principal Firmware EngineerOur client, a global leader in the Defence Industry is looking for a Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer working on avionics systems.Role Overview: The Senior / Principal firmware engineer would be responsible for design and development of Firmware designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.Job Responsibilities: The firmware engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide firmware solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designsDocumenting and recording deliverablesVerifying firmware designsEnsuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision controlProviding progress reports Skills, Qualifications and Experience required: MandatoryProven expertise of developing firmware using VHDL or VerilogExperienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and PrecisionFamiliar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis toolsExperience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirementsIndependent verification using VHDLExperience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management toolsDe-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration and verification at hardware and