Power & Nuclear - Firmware Verification Engineer (Multiple Roles) - Stafford

Firmware Verification Engineer (Multiple Roles)

Stafford

Initial 6 Months Contract

Inside IR35

The Lead Firmware Verification Engineer will be working to analyse requirements, plan testing, and design stimuli to verify 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:

• Study requirement specifications to understand verification requirements.
• Creating verification plans and reviewing these with designers.
• Development of verification matrices to ensure coverage of requirements.
• Writing the tests outlined in the test plan.
• Developing and applying assertions within an assertion-based verification strategy.
• Developing functional coverage (cover groups, cover points) to measure test effectiveness.
• Developing constraints to guide constrained random simulations.
• Reporting RTL bugs and supporting designers to resolve bugs.
• Code and functional coverage analysis and closure.

Required Qualifications:

• Significant industrial experience in an FPGA/ASIC verification role.
• Professional use of Verilog is essential.
• Proficient in the use of System Verilog for verification.
• Experience with simulation tools, preferably Mentor Graphics ModelSim/Questa.
• Experience with UVM/VMM/OVM Frameworks.
• Continuous Integration experience, e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in designing hardware for real-time control applications.
• Experience in FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
• 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.