Senior FPGA Engineer
Location: Stafford
Time Type: Full time
Job Description
Job Description Summary
The Senior FPGA Development Engineer will be working to define requirements, implementation and enhance product features 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.
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.
- Development and Implementation of features.
- Knowledge and understanding of Analogue and Digital Hardware design.
- Maintain legacy products including updates and improvements to extend product life span.
- Participating in and contributing to design reviews.
- Developing specialized knowledge in their discipline. Serves as best practice/quality resource. Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area.
- Contributes towards strategy development, and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
- Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
- Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
Required Qualifications
- Degree or Higher in Electrical / Electronic engineering or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience (10+ years) of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
- Strong all-round knowledge and understanding of electronic components & principles.
- Exceptional hardware / FPGA debugging skills.
- Knowledge and Experience in using Model Based design tools such as MATLAB/SIMULINK
- Scripting experience using Perl, Python
- Experience with Altera, Microsemi, Xilinx FPGA devices and vendor design tools
- Dynamic and proactive with ability to work on own or as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to resolve technical issues.
- Power Electronics control system design.
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of HVDC
- 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
- Experience of version control, e.g., SVN, GIT
- Bug tracking tools, e.g., JIRA
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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