The Lead FPGA Firmware 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, VBE, working together with engineers based in global locations. The role is accountable for business-critical design, development to meet product requirements and timelines for future commercial HVDC projects.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

o Analysing system requirements and defining functions to be implemented in Hardware.

o Strong Knowledge and experience of Model Based Design (MAT LAB Simulink, HDL coder, Xilinx System Generator)

o FPGA Firmware development.

o Analogue and digital Hardware design.

o Maintain legacy products including updates and improvements to extend product life span.

o Contribution to creating and maintaining manufacturing data packs.

o Writing functional specifications for design.

o Writing test specifications (Routine test, Type test, Test Harness).

o Participating in and contributing to design reviews.

o Ensuring designs are documented to Company standards.

Required Qualifications

o Degree or Higher in Electrical / Electronic engineering or equivalent experience with 8+ years experience

o Minimum 5+ years' experience of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.

o Strong all-round knowledge and understanding of electronic components & principles.

o Exceptional hardware / FPGA debugging skills.

o Experience with Altera, Microsemi, Xilinx FPGA devices and design tools (Quartus II, Libero SoC).

o Dynamic and proactive with ability to work on own or as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to resolve technical issues.

o Experience of designing hardware for real time control applications.

o High-speed digital hardware design and PCB layout skills.

Desired Qualifications

o Good verbal and written communication skills.

o Motivated great teammate, self-starter, results oriented.

o Agile development practices e.g., Scrum

o Scripting experience using Perl, Python

o Experience of version control, e.g., SVN, GIT

o Bug tracking tools, e.g., JIRA

o Power Electronics control system design.

o Knowledge of HVDC

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes