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