Digital HW

Job Title: Digital HW & FW Engineer

Job Description:

Leonardo is an international industrial group, one of the world's leading players in the Aerospace, Defense and Security sectors, which develops multidomain technological capabilities in the fields of Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerospace Structures, Electronics, Cyber Security and Space. With over 53,000 employees worldwide, the company has a solid industrial presence in Italy, the UK, Poland, the United States, and operates in 150 countries through controlled companies, joint ventures and participations. A protagonist of the main global strategic programs, it is a technological and industrial partner of Governments, Defense Administrations, Institutions and companies.

Within the Space Business Area, we are looking for a Digital HW & FW Engineer for our Campi Bisenzio (FI) site.

The selected candidate will join the Electronics Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of hardware and firmware for FPGA in the context of space system projects;
• Requirements analysis;
• Preparation of HW/FW specifications;
• Development of digital electronic boards;
• Development of firmware for FPGA, integration of third-party IPs, development of algorithms through RTL modeling;
• Verification and validation of developed hardware or firmware;
• Preparation of all documentation related to the hardware and firmware development cycle;
• Preparation of RAMS documentation (Worst case analysis, part stress analysis, support to Radiation analysis, Reliability analysis and Failure Mode and Criticality Analysis);
• Preparation of design reports and functional reports;
• Preparation of documentation related to the firmware development cycle according to ECSS standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electronic Engineering or Physics;
• Preferably, extra-curricular activities in HW/FW design and/or participation in technical teams, contests, and competitions.

Desired Experience:

• Junior: 1-3 years of experience in the role.

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• Competence in designing digital and mixed analog/digital electronic boards;
• Skills in developing firmware for FPGA on Microchip/Microsemi, Xilinx, and Altera platforms, integrating hardware IPs;
• Skills in implementing control functions, digital signal processing, and telemetry in FPGA;
• Knowledge of Model Driven Engineering methodologies.

Desired Behavioral Skills:

• Team building;
• Flexibility;
• Proactivity;
• Result-oriented approach;
• Problem-solving approach;
• Definition of priorities;
• Time and deadline management.

Desired Language Skills:

• English (minimum B2 level).

Desired IT Skills:

• HW development toolchain (Orcad, Mentor DxDesigner);
• FW development toolchain (Mentor ModelSim, QuestaSim, HDL Designer, ReqTracer, Vivado, HLS, and System Generator);
• Circuit simulation tools (PSPice, LTSpice...);
• Document management tools: in addition to the MS Office suite, knowledge of requirement management tools such as ReqTracer and Doors is appreciated.

Other:

Availability for short national and international trips.