Lead FPGA Development Engineer

Job Description Summary

Become part of a winning team and help deliver the Green Energy transition. As the Lead FPGA Development Engineer, you will define requirements, enhance product features for an electronic design for world‑class Control & Protection system in VSC and LCC systems, and collaborate with engineers worldwide. The role is accountable for business‑critical development to meet product requirements and timelines for future commercial HVDC projects.

• Analyse system requirements and define functions to be implemented in hardware.
• Develop FPGA applications.
• Design analogue and digital hardware.
• Maintain legacy products, including updates and improvements to extend product life span.
• Contribute to creating and maintaining manufacturing data packs.
• Write functional specifications for design.
• Write test specifications (routine test, type test).
• Participate in and contribute to design reviews.
• Ensure 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, able to work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary 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, self‑starter, results‑oriented teammate.
• Agile development practices (e.g., Scrum).
• Experience with scripting using Perl, Python.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., SVN, GIT).
• Experience with bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
• Power electronics control system design.
• Knowledge of HVDC.

Additional Information:
Relocation assistance is provided. This role is open and not expired.