Senior Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Firmware Engineer

Location: Hybrid work from offices in Harwell–Didcot, Stevenage, or Manchester, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global space technology company developing communications satellites, Earth and space observation systems, robotics, geointelligence solutions, and space exploration infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop space telecommunications payloads, instruments, and sensors within a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Design, simulate, and implement digital signal processing algorithms for telecommunications and sensing applications.
• Create firmware design concepts from formal interface control documents, requirements, or blank-sheet functionality requests.
• Produce formal firmware requirements where needed and develop HDL implementations in VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Test and troubleshoot FPGA, hardware, and software components for space missions.
• Maintain and extend existing products.

Requirements

• University degree in computer science, engineering, physics, or another analytical or quantitative discipline.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing signal processing systems using FPGA.
• Strong VHDL and/or Verilog coding skills.
• Strong skills in FPGA code simulation and testing.
• Experience with formal configuration control methods.
• Successful candidates must complete BPSS screening, including right-to-work, nationality and immigration-status, identity, basic criminal-record, employment-history, and reference checks.

Nice to have

• C/C++ coding for SoC cores and/or vector processors, such as Xilinx Versal FPGA AI Engines.
• Ability to lead design teams.
• Familiarity with 5G/LTE radio stacks.
• Familiarity with radiation-mitigation design techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model supporting work-life balance.
• Private healthcare, disability income protection, life insurance, pension plan, and employee assistance program.
• Benefits are available to employees and qualified dependents.
• Equal-opportunity workplace focused on diversity, integrity, collaboration, and inclusive problem-solving.
• Reasonable recruitment accommodations are available upon request.