Lead FPGA Development Engineer Leader (m,f,d)
- LocationRemote
- Work typeRemote
- EmploymentFull-time
- Posted9 November 2026
- SourceGEV's careers page (Workday)
Live checkFirst seen 9 h ago; still listed on GEV's careers page just now.
At a glance
- Experience10+ years
- Skills and toolsScrum, Python, Jira
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Job Description Summary
The Lead FPGA Firmware Engineer will be working to define requirements, enhance product features for an electronic design for world-class Control & Protection system in VSC and LCC systems, VBE, working together with engineers based in global locations.
The role is accountable for business-critical design, 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.
- Strong Knowledge and experience of Model Based Design (MAT LAB Simulink, HDL coder, Xilinx System Generator)
- 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, Test Harness ).
- Participating in and contributing to design reviews.
- Ensuring designs are documented to Company standards.
Required Qualifications:
- Degree or Higher in Electrical / Electronic engineering or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Model Based Design.
- Minimum 10+ years' experience of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
- Strong 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.
Desired Qualifications:
- 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.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
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