FPGA development Engineer

Job Description Summary

The FPGA Development Engineer will be working to define requirements, enhance product features for an electronic design for world-class Control & Protection system in VSC and LCC systems, working together with engineers based global locations.

The role is accountable for business-critical development to meet product requirements and timelines for future commercial HVDC projects.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

· Analysing system requirements and defining functions to be implemented in Hardware.

· FPGA Firmware development.

· Analogue and digital Hardware design.

· Maintain legacy products including updates and improvements to extend product life span.

· Contribution to creating and maintaining manufacturing data packs.

· Writing functional specifications for design.

· Writing test specifications (Routine test, Type test).

· Participating in and contributing to design reviews.

· Ensuring designs are documented to Company standards.

Required Qualifications

· Degree or Higher in Electrical / Electronic engineering or equivalent experience.

· Significant experience of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.

· Knowledge and experience of Model Based Design.

· Strong all-round knowledge and understanding of electronic components & principles.

· Exceptional hardware / FPGA debugging skills.

· Experience with Altera, Microsemi, Xilinx FPGA devices and design tools (Quartus II, Libero SoC).

· Dynamic and proactive with ability to work on own or as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to resolve technical issues.

Desired Qualifications

· Experience of designing hardware for real time control applications.

· High-speed digital hardware design and PCB layout skills.

· Good verbal and written communication skills.

· Motivated great teammate, self-starter, results oriented.

· Agile development practices e.g., Scrum

· Scripting experience using Perl, Python

· Experience of version control, e.g., SVN, GIT

· Bug tracking tools, e.g., JIRA

· Power Electronics control system design.

· Knowledge of HVDC

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes