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.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Analysing system requirements and defining functions to be implemented in hardware.
- Strong knowledge and experience of Model Based Design (MATLAB 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 with 8+ years experience
- Minimum 5+ years of FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog
- Solid 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
- 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: Yes

📌 Lead FPGA Firmware Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 GE Vernova
📍 Hyderabad