Power & Nuclear - Firmware Development Engineer (Multiple Roles) - Stafford
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Location
Stafford
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Contact:
Diane Jones
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Contact email:
Diane.Jones@firstrg.com
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Published:
about 2 years ago
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Duration:
6 Months with possible extension
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Expiry date:
2022-03-17
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Startdate:
March 2022
Firmware Development Engineer (Multiple Roles)
Stafford
Initial 6 Months Contract
Inside IR35
The Lead Firmware Developer 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 global locations. The role is accountable for business-critical development to meet product requirements and timelines for future commercial HVDC projects.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Analysing system requirements and defining functions to be implemented in Hardware.
- 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 the design.
- Writing test specifications (Routine test, Type test).
- Participating in and contributing to design reviews.
- Ensuring designs are documented to Company standards.
- Supporting site activities.
Required Qualifications:
- Degree or Higher in Electrical/Electronic engineering.
- Significant experience of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
- Knowledge and experience of Model-Based Design.
- Strong all-around knowledge and understanding of electronic components & principles.
- Strong hardware/FPGA debugging skills.
- Experience with Altera, Microsemi, Xilinx FPGA devices and design tools (Quartus II, Libero SoC).
- Dynamic and proactive with the ability to work on their own or as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to resolve technical issues.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in 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 in version control, e.g., SVN, GIT
- Bug tracking tools, e.g., JIRA
- Power Electronics control system design.
- Knowledge of HVDC