FPGA Development Engineer

Job Description SummaryBecome part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

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