Lead FPGA Development Engineer

Overview

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition. As the successful Lead FPGA Development Engineer, you 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 in global locations. The role is accountable for business‑critical development to meet product requirements and timelines for future commercial HVDC projects.

• Analysing system requirements and defining functions to be implemented in hardware.
• FPGA application 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.

• Degree or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Significant and demonstrated experience of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
• Knowledge and experience of Model Based Design.
• Excellent all‑round knowledge and understanding of electronic components and 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.

• Experience 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 with version control (e.g., SVN, GIT).
• Bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
• Power electronics control system design.
• Knowledge of HVDC.

• A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements.
• Competitive benefits and great development opportunities.
• Private health insurance.

Relocation Assistance Provided:
No