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

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