Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Senior FPGA firmware Design Engineer Staffordshire, UK Full Time Permanent hire // Contract

Required Qualifications Degree or Higher in Electrical/Electronic engineering. 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. Strong hardware/FPGA debugging skills.

Experience with Altera, Microsemi, Xilinx FPGA devices and design tools (Quartus II, Libero SoC). High-speed digital hardware design and PCB layout skills.

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

Job Description Summary The Lead Firmware Developer 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. Analyzing 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. Supporting site activities. Desired Qualifications

Experience of designing hardware for real time control applications. 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