Lead FPGA Development Engineer
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- An excellent all-round knowledge and understanding of electronic components & 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 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.
- 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.