FPGA Development Engineer

Job Description Summary

Become 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

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes