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 InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: Yes