Job Description: Senior Electronics Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Interpret system requirements and break them down into hardware requirements.
• Lead Electronics and/or Firmware development, including full system, sub-system, and individual board design and coding.
• Ensure technical solutions meet customer, legislative, and business requirements.
• Provide technical oversight throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support team planning and estimation activities at the start of new projects.
• Act as Project Engineering Lead (PEL) and/or Work Package Manager (WPM) on multiple projects.
• Identify and resolve qualification, certification, and safety issues.
• Produce technical project documentation such as Management Plans, Requirements Specifications, Design Documents, Interface Specifications, and Acceptance Tests, as well as approve design change requests and concessions.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers.
• Liaise with customers and suppliers as necessary.
• Oversee initial test and integration, including formal testing.

Role Requirements:

• Extensive experience across the full project lifecycle as an electronics/firmware engineer, ideally within the defence sector.
• Hands-on experience designing complex systems across multiple electronics disciplines, with a strong understanding of the associated challenges and pitfalls.
• Successful delivery of reliable solutions within time and budget on fixed-price contracts.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders beyond the electronics domain (e.g., Project Management, Systems, Mechanical, and Software Engineering) to resolve project issues.
• Degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline.
• Exposure to:
  • Analog and digital technologies.
  • Design for EMC, Electrical Safety, & Signal Integrity, including schematic and PCB layout.
  • A relevant branch of electronics (e.g., power, high-speed digital, analogue, RF, Sonar).
  • Familiarity with PMRP and ECAD tools.
  • Design for manufacture and an understanding of the full project lifecycle.
  • Prototyping, testing, and verification of electronic subsystems at PCB, unit, and sub-system levels.
  • Component selection, including obsolescence and environmental considerations (REACH, RoHS).
  • Use of engineering tools like DOORS, ERPs, and Configuration Management tools.

Desirable Experience:

• Design of Low Noise, Low Power Analogue Receiver Front Ends using JFETs and Low Noise Differential Amplifiers.
• Experience with MicroSemi/Intel FPGA Design.
• Expertise in 24-Bit ADC Design and Filter Design.
• Experience with VME/VPX design.
• Power Amplifier design using SIC FET technology up to 1500V DC.
• Power Supply Design, including Mains Supply and DC-DC converters.
• Cadstar ECAD experience.

Benefits:

• Optional 9-day fortnight.
• Time off in lieu (TOIL).
• No core working hours / flexible working hours.
• Early finish at 1pm on Fridays.
• Annual bonus.
• Hybrid working for certain roles.
• Casual dress code.
• 25 days holiday + Christmas shutdown.
• Option to buy or sell holiday.
• Option to purchase private healthcare, dental, and critical illness cover via salary sacrifice.
• Discounts at over 200 online stores through the Reward Hub.
• 4x annual salary life cover.
• Pension scheme: Employer contributes 5%, Employee contribution from 4% to 70% (subject to National Minimum Wage/ Living Wage).

Join us and be part of an innovative team delivering cutting-edge engineering solutions!