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One of our known clients is looking for a wide range of Firmware Engineers at various levels to join are a world-class defence Technology Company. They develop cutting edge Radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon and SAAB Gripen fighter jets, as well as Maritime and Airborne surveillance systems. Our client is investors in innovation, undertaking all our own research to fuel our future products. This is an exciting opportunity for you as an engineer to bring your skill set and knowledge to a fast paced, dynamic and forward-thinking working environment. You will be involved with FPGA firmware development across the Radar and Advanced Targeting Line of Business. The key duties of the role will be design and development of firmware designs, managing development activities through the project and engineering life cycles and delivering the final solution. You will also work as part of a larger, multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering Firmware solutions to Radar or Advanced Targeting projects with 8 years plus experience What you'll do as a Lead Firmware Engineer: As a Lead Firmware Engineer you will be responsible for; • Hardware requirements capture and management., • Concept development for complex functions and systems., • FPGA design and analysis., • Production of material for design reviews., • Development of test planning, integration and design verification., • Ensure that all firmware designs follow the company firmware process. What we need from you: You will ideally have experience in the following areas; • Experience using FPGA technologies from either Xilinx, Intel (Altera) or Microsemi (Actel) and their tools., • Experience in verification techniques using either VHDL or System Verilog/UVM., • Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route., • Ability to analyse system level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements., • A methodical approach to the full firmware design life cycle, working to a structured firmware process such as RTCA DO-254 or similar., • Experience of de-bugging firmware designs and supporting verification and integration at hardware and system level alongside Software and Electronic's Engineers., • Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities., • Ability to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form., • Ability to work on own or as part of a team including engineers from other disciplines., • Familiarity with Xilinx Vivado is an advantage, but not vital., • Familiarity with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer and ModelSim/Questa is an advantage, but not vital., • First or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (eg Physics). Candidate must Eligible for SC Clearance . Personal attributes and values are just as important to us as technical ability so we are looking for engineers with a willingness to learn, progress and develop through our devoted technical career path. If you are passionate in what you do and can deliver a pragmatic approach to problem solving we would like to hear from you. This is a permanent/Contract position with salary upto £90K per annum/£650 Per day inside IR35 circa Primary Location: GB - Edinburgh Additional Locations:GB - Newcastle Contract Type: Hybrid Working Please share your profiles to (see below)

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Your New Company Hays HR is delighted to be working in partnership with a forward-thinking professional services firm to recruit an exciting new role. As the organisation embarks on a significant growth journey over the next two to three years, they are strengthening their team and are now seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner to lead their talent agenda in collaboration with the Director of People and Culture. This dynamic organisation is renowned for delivering cutting-edge solutions in customer strategy, data science, and digital transformation. With a strong reputation across sectors including financial services, energy, and life sciences, they are entering an exciting phase of innovation and expansion-making this a unique opportunity for a proactive and strategic HR professional to make a lasting impact. Your New Role In this role, you will be responsible for driving initiatives that enhance onboarding processes, career path development, training plans and learning frameworks, ensuring that talent remains engaged and equipped for future challenges. Key responsibilities within this role include: • Strategic Sourcing & Attraction: Design and implement innovative sourcing strategies to attract high-quality candidates across a range of roles, ensuring alignment with the organisation's values and long-term goals., • Candidate Experience & Employer Branding: Enhance the candidate journey from initial contact through to onboarding, while actively promoting the organisation's employer brand across multiple channels and platforms., • Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand workforce needs, advise on market trends, and deliver tailored recruitment solutions that support business objectives., • Process Optimisation: Continuously review and improve recruitment processes, leveraging data and technology to drive efficiency, consistency, and inclusivity in hiring practices., • Talent Pipeline Development: Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for critical roles, including early careers programmes, internships, and specialist functions., • Recruitment Analytics & Reporting: Monitor and report on key recruitment metrics, providing insights and recommendations to improve performance and inform strategic workforce planning., • Broader HR Involvement: In addition to a strong focus on talent acquisition, the role will contribute to wider people initiatives including onboarding, job frameworks, benchmarking, and performance management-offering exposure across the full HR ecosystem. What you will need to succeed • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field; professional certification (e.g. CIPD, SHRM) are desirable., • Proven experience in talent acquisition, ideally within a fast-paced or professional services environment., • Ideally, you will have worked successfully in a specialist Technology or Science-based Talent Acquisition role., • Strong understanding of recruitment best practices, sourcing strategies, and employer branding, with experience leveraging technology and data to drive hiring outcomes., • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and influence stakeholders at all levels., • Demonstrated the ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously, with a focus on quality, efficiency, and candidate experience., • Strategic and innovative thinker with a passion for attracting top talent and enhancing organisational capability. What you will get in return This organisation offers a competitive remuneration and benefits package and can offer a great work-life balance and the flexibility you require. What You Need To Do Now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Infrastructure Research Engineer European Tech Recruit are working closely with a multinational telecommunications company, based in Edinburgh, who are looking for a talented Infrastructure Research Engineer to join their team. This role can be available on either a perm or 12 month rolling PAYE contract. In this role you will join a research lab focused on shaping the future of data center infrastructure. As a Research Engineer you will collaborate with leading scientists, tackle cutting-edge research problems in systems, foster influence in academia and industry through technological innovations, and cultivate partnerships with local and global research teams. Responsibilities as Infrastructure Research Engineer: • Contribute to the research and development team's exploration of emerging technologies and systems., • Engage in team projects to conduct system design, analysis, and prototype development., • Play a role in selecting research problems, designing solutions, analysing results, and building prototypes to showcase the advantages and challenges of these technologies across various data center and cloud applications., • Design, implement, and evaluate key technologies and associated algorithms., • Actively engage with academia, industry, and open-source communities to establish influence and contribute to the broader technological landscape. Requirements: • Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field., • Be comfortable with research methodology., • Be comfortable with system design and implementation., • Have an in-depth understanding of operating systems and/or distributed systems and/or cloud computing., • Good programming skills, master of at least one language, such as C/C++, Go, Python etc., • Good communication skills. Desirable Experience: • PhD in operating systems, distributed systems etc., • Published papers in top journals/conferences. If this role is of any interest please apply directly on LinkedIn or send a copy of your CV to . By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data and store and process it on our systems. For more information please see our Privacy Notice ().

Business Unit: Model Risk and Analytics Salary range: up to circa £41,000 per annum DOE red-hot benefits Location: Hybrid - with occasional travel to one of our key hubs Contract type : Permanent Get out of your comfort zone. Live a life more Virgin. Our Team The team’s focus is on providing quantitative and qualitative analysis across our model suite, providing solutions support the acquisition of new business, risk-based account management and manage the bank’s capital across its business portfolios. A key part of the team’s remit will be to gain buy-in from stakeholders for new ways of doing things. What you’ll be doing Building and validating statistical models to support business decisions, in line with regulatory requirements. Researching the best techniques for the given purpose and coordinating with others to determine a model specification. Delivering analytical/statistical modelling and data analysis to support the development of the bank’s models Inputting into the scoping, design, development, validation and implementation of models Clearly defining problem statements and researching and testing innovative solutions to address these Documenting the process and outcome of your analysis and model development to support internal review, stakeholder engagement and change proposals Reviewing existing models to demonstrate continued performance and identify potential enhancements to the modelling suite. We need you to have Strong analytical skills with a good degree in a numerate discipline subject (e.g. statistics, engineering, econometrics) Familiarity of a wide variety of advanced machine learning and AI modelling techniques with some experience of applying them, ideally in a banking environment Experience of model development projects or modelling analytics within banking with an understanding of model usage Practical experience of distilling and interpreting complex data and analysis Expertise in the use of statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, Python, R) as well as MS Office Demonstrable understanding of statistical modelling techniques such as hypothesis testing, probability distributions and Regression. It’s a bonus if you have but not essential Advanced Degree (PhD, Masters) in a data science related area Coaching/mentoring experience Experience in Banking and Risk Management. Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more. Up to five extra paid well-being days per year. 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. Market-leading pension. Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance. Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard. As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.

A PhD or last year PhD student in Statistics, Operations Research, Computational Sciences or Economics, Management Science or closely related field. We are seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the project titled “A Targeted Support System to Bridge the Advice Gap,” sponsored by

Masters) in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field. Provide critical industry perspectives during review cycles and workshops, ensuring the course reflects current and emerging data science practices. Proven track record of employing advanced data science techniques t

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential - - Advanced Degree (PhD, Masters) in a data science related area - Coaching/mentoring experience - Experience in Banking and Risk Management. Delivering analytical/statistical modelling and data analysis to support the development of the bank’s mo

Develop and deliver sustainability training programs for employees to raise awareness and promote a culture of sustainability. Collect, analyse, and report data on sustainability performance. Bachelor's degree in environmental science, Sustainability, Business, or a related field.

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience. The Principal Automation Software Engineer will be a hands-on role on a small team of test automation engineers developing automated tests for the

Bachelor's degree or equivalent certification, preferably in electrical engineering, computer science, or related discipline.At least 5 years of relevant business analysis experience within the energy sector.Hands-on experience of agile methodologies and tools, proven knowledge of the software devel

Product Manager - Cloud Native. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the

Lead, carry out and publish internationally excellent research in applied statistics, actuarial data science or statistical data science, or a related field;. PhD in statistics or statistical data science or actuarial science, or a related field. Those working in actuarial science, Bayesian statisti

Degree (Level 8 or above) in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Planning, or related field. As an Associate Environmental Consultant, you will manage a team of consultants and lead the delivery of high-quality environmental assessments and reports. Provide technical oversight and revi

A BSc in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related discipline, with hands-on experience in analytical chemistry within a laboratory environment. A genuine interest in environmental science is essential - and if you have knowledge or experience in air quality or atmospheric chemistry, even better

The Senior Software Engineer will be a member of the Spacelabs R&D engineering team working on the development of Spacelabs Patient Monitoring and Connectivity (PMC) products. Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science, Mathematics or a related Engineering discipline. Con