Location: Crawley, United Kingdom Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services. Join a proven firmware engineering team delivering advanced solutions for defence and related electronic systems. You will help design, develop and verify FPGA firmware for mission-critical products, working with modern FPGA and System-on-Chip technologies in a structured, quality-driven engineering environment. This is an opportunity to shape reusable firmware architectures, solve complex technical challenges, and influence how firmware is designed, verified and delivered across multi-disciplinary programmes. What you''ll do Architect FPGA firmware designs that promote reuse, scalability and maintainability. Design FPGA firmware using VHDL or SystemVerilog. Verify FPGA firmware using Hardware Verification Languages or Hardware Description Languages. Develop and improve verification test benches, simulation environments and verification methodologies. Work alongside systems, software and hardware engineers to deliver complete electronic systems. Contribute to requirements definition, architecture, design, verification and ..... full job details .....