Firmware Manager

Date Posted: 2025-03-18

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Goodrich Controls Holding Limited, Motor Drives, Fore 3, Fore Business Park, Stratford Road, Solihull, B90 4SS

Position Role Type: Unspecified

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for Firmware Engineering Manager to join our team.

About Us
We are currently seeking a Firmware Engineering Manager with extensive Motor Controller and Motor Test experience to join our team within Collins Aerospace Electronic Controls and Motor Systems, Solihull.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industry. We have the extensive capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and broad expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market for aircraft electric propulsion systems.

Recently, the site at Solihull has developed the world’s first 1MW Motor and Control system for use in hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion.

What You Will Do:

• You will bring extensive Firmware / FPGA Experience.
• You will lead our exciting and ambitious Firmware team.
• You will install a good fundamental understanding of FPGA design.
• You will be responsible for leading a team of engineers to own and deliver complex work packages from conception through to final product.
• You will work in a collaborative team, giving complex specialist support to the design and development of high-performance world-class motor drive systems.

What You Will Learn:

• You will gain niche skills enabling you to be unique in all you do.
• You can take flight to becoming a subject matter expert and leader in Firmware Product Development. We are growing, so can you.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Degree or equivalent in electronics engineering.
• Experience with FPGA tools & technologies (e.g., Microchip, Xilinx, SoC, Modelsim, Matlab, Simulink).
• Demonstrable practical experience of FPGA design and verification (VHDL) including requirements capture, simulation, code coverage, synthesis, place & route, and timing analysis & closure.
• Configuration management experience of large complex FPGA designs.
• Ability to collaborate closely with other engineering disciplines.
• Proven track record in delivering and leading multiple concurrent complex work packages.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to co-ordinate a team of people for design and verification.
• Provide team leadership (taking a hands-on approach) in design, development, prototyping, verification, and delivery of DO254 compliant FPGAs.
• Develop a high-performance engineering team, drive goal setting, coaching, monitoring, training and manage career development.
• Guide the team to embrace an innovative approach to problem solving, design implementation, process development and quality.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Manager, team lead or Principal firmware engineer with 5+ years FPGA/ASIC experience.
• An understanding of Agile methodologies (particularly SCRUM & Kanban).
• An understanding of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
• An understanding of communication protocols, DSP or VLSI maths functions.
• Experience of System on Chip (SoC) design targeting FPGA or ASIC.
• Experience of applying control laws within FPGA applications.
• Knowledge of motor control systems, sensing components (e.g., LVDT, Resolvers).
• Experience with military or aerospace designs compliant to RTCA/DO-254.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible working, hybrid working and a family friendly approach.
• Outstanding state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories centrally located and easily accessible.
• Life insurance.
• Excellent corporate pension plan with a 2:1 matched contribution up to 10%.
• Private Health Insurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy/sell up to 5 days.
• Career development.
• Half day working on Fridays.
• And so much more!

Please note that potential candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and background checks.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.