Hi, I’m Harry Rogers, a Hardware Test Engineer based in Sussex, UK. I specialise in verifying military-grade electro-optics at Chess Dynamics and develop automated hardware-in-the-loop validation tools for FPGAs.
Defence Engineering
chess-dynamics.com/hawkeye-land-systems ↗Chess Dynamics • West SussexHawkeye Vehicle Photos & Specs ↗I work as a Hardware Test Engineer at Chess Dynamics in West Sussex, coordinating Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), board-level fault diagnostics, and environmental qualification on the Hawkeye family of electro-optical tracking directors.
These precision-stabilised camera and laser platforms integrate daylight HD optics, cooled thermal imagers, and eye-safe laser rangefinders onto defence vehicle platforms for international allied programmes.
Hardware Test Engineer at Chess Dynamics. Responsibilities encompass coordinating Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), board-level fault diagnostics, multi-channel serial telemetry verification (RS-422, CAN, Ethernet), optical boresighting, and environmental qualification (thermal and vibration ESS). All technical descriptions cite public Chess Dynamics product literature.
First Class Honours
IET Prize 2026 • CapstoneFor my final year dissertation, I built VAIDAR — an automated Hardware-in-the-Loop testbench for AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGAs. It streams Python stimulus vectors across a 921,600 baud UART bridge directly into physical silicon, validating outputs against golden models at 968 tests per second to catch hardware bugs that pure software simulation misses.
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