Are you ready to join a collaborative international development team known for its technical excellence, strong product design standards, and a culture that values growth, recognition, and a supportive work environment?

At Sperry Marine , we provide safe, efficient, and reliable navigation solutions for the commercial and defence maritime industries. Our engineering teams, located in New Malden, UK , and Hamburg, Germany , work closely together to develop and maintain a wide range of navigation products, with an ambitious roadmap for future innovations.

We are currently seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to join our Engineering Department in New Malden. This role will play a key part in our radar sensor development team, focusing on firmware and embedded software development for maritime navigation systems.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Work in the Hardware team to develop firmware and embedded software on SoC platforms for new and existing products.
• To take ownership and responsibility for current and future design for developed SoC platforms going forwards.
• Collaborate closely with the Embedded Software and System Test teams during system integration activities.
• Maintain and improve FPGA development processes, workflows, and tools.
• Work autonomously in a focused, agile team, contributing high-quality results from the outset.

About You

Were looking for a motivated and detail-oriented engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and has a strong technical foundation. Ideal candidates will have:

• Deep understanding of System on Chip (SoC) based design and build environment.
• A prerequisite of HDL coding and test benching (VHDL, Verilog).
• Software languages, C (or C++) is preferable, additional languages considered useful.
• Knowledge of one or more of Bash, TCL, or Python
• Should be confident understanding and capturing requirements in order to develop solutions.Capable of creating technical documentation to a professional standard
• Experience with Vivado is required and Xilinx (AMD) preferred
• Familiarity with any other FPGA vendors' tools is a positive.
• Peripheral buses, I2C, SPI.
• AXI bus interconnect.
• Experience with memory interfaces, SDRAM and/or DDR.
• Asynchronous interfaces
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• TCP/IP, UTP, CAT240 (Asterix), Networking Protocols
• Knowledge of device tree and device drivers
• Familiarity with RF transceivers.
• Prior experience with radar systems.

At Sperry Marine, youll be part of a global team at the forefront of maritime navigation innovation. You'll enjoy opportunities to grow professionally, see your work implemented in real-world systems, and be part of a company that truly values its people.

• Option for a compressed working pattern (alternate Fridays off)
• Up to 8% contributory pension scheme.
• Up to 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Ongoing training and development
• A range of other benefits to support the health, wellbeing and lifestyle of you and your family

About Us

With over 100 years of history and expertise in navigation, we have established our self as a major global provider of navigation solutions, including radars, compass systems, steering systems, speed logs, integrated bridge and control systems. We take pride in our commitment to provide 24/7support to all of our customers.

We know everyone brings a unique perspective. We want to harness diverse thinking by bringing bright minds together and valuing the differences that lead to stronger insights and innovation.