Want Senior I&C Hardware/FPGA Design Engineer (Remote Eligible, U.S.) in USA
Job title: Senior I&C Hardware/FPGA Design Engineer (Remote Eligible, U.S.)
Company: General Electric
Job description: Job Description Summary The I&C hardware Engineer works within the I&C Engineering team and is responsible for designing and implementing I&C electronic hardware and software for I&C systems for Nuclear Power Plants. The I&C hardware team has strong interfaces with electronic software design and plant system operations. This role requires technical problem solving, strong hardware design skills and effective communication/collaboration with other teams within the GEH business functions.
Job Description
?Roles and Responsibilities
The Hardware and Test Engineer is responsible for the delivery of high-quality engineering electronic hardware designs and testing strategies. Work scope typically includes the following essential responsibilities:
- Develop creative solutions and reduce complexity to create accurate and effective solutions for complex engineering problems.
- Typical hardware activities will include creating a design from requirements and helping define requirements where necessary.
- Design activities include schematic design, component selection, PCB layout, PLD/FPGA design, performing simulation/module testing, PLD/FPGA code reviews, and integration testing of the design. This also includes design verification of these same activities.
- Documenting designs by creating Design Specifications, performing PLD/FPGA code reviews, and writing test reports.
- Engage customers to define scope, review results, and discuss technical risks.
- Work with the technical leader to establish an effective work plan, including time estimates, schedule estimates, requirements, and work processes.
- Apply engineering fundamentals and 1st order engineering principles to establish and/or confirm expected performance.
- Provide clear and complete analysis documentation in accordance with GE engineering procedures.
- Manage time effectively to provide quality deliverables within the expected project timeline. Communicate effectively to leadership the status of work activities
- Effectively manage multiple priorities.
- Develop system verification and validation test requirements to ensure products meet system specification and performed this in a leadership role.
- Develop testware, test plans & procedures to implement requirements.
- Perform Testing to support component failure analysis including report generation.
- Interface with designers and validate their outputs.
- Generate and verify test documentation.
- Prepare manual and automated production test procedures for components, assemblies and instruments.
- Drive compliance with GEH and industry-based systems lifecycle processes, participate in design and technical reviews and promote continuous improvements.
- Support documentation, analysis and resolution of conditions adverse to quality for Services IC control systems through the GEH Corrective Action Program
- Bachelor's Degree in electrical, computer or software engineering from an accredited college of university.
- Experience with creating and maintaining electronic circuit boards.
- 10+ years of experience in field.
- Relocation to Wilmington, NC strongly preferred.
- If you cannot relocate, the role will require occasional travel to Wilmington, NC for onsite testing.
- Knowledge and experience with PCB design, signal analysis and system verification tools (Altium, PSpice, SystemVerilog, UVM, etc.)
- Knowledge and experience with common HDL languages and PLD/FPGA development tools (Quartus, Vivado, ModelSim, Questa, etc.).
- General knowledge and experience of schematic design, PCB layout, and PCB manufacturing.
- Experienced in product, instrument, system design, verification, validation and qualification
- Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving
- Experience in design verification and validation
- Leadership experience inside and/or outside the classroom
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to articulate clearly
- Contributes to creative solutions and challenges status quo
- Proactively learns new tools and identifies opportunities for improvement and promotes their adoption.