Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Job Details
Full Job Description
What you can expect in this role (Job
Responsibilities)
While each day brings new opportunities,
your core responsibilities will be:
1. Design including but
not limited to;
* Design of electronic circuits, subsystems and
systems of varying complexity crossing analog, digital and RF
(desirable) domains.
* Complete electronic design including;
o
Schematic capture.
o Layout capture
o Footprint/symbol
creation
* Maintenance and update of Altium Library and
templates
* Scoping of new systems and technologies both for
feasibility and product design.
* Managing of external design
houses and resource as required
2. Technical Support and
Testing
* Production and Manufacturing assistance as
required.
* Trouble shooting of hardware and system issues seen
from all areas of the business
* Self testing and troubleshooting
of your own design and development work.
* Testing, troubleshooting
and updating of existing design and development work produced by other
engineers for our products.
* Complete Design Reviews
*
Verification of designs against requirement Specifications
*
Mentoring of lower grades assigned to your design function as and when
needed.
3. Documentation and Communication including but
not limited to;
* Provide task time estimates and risk
considerations to the project manager and/or RF and Hardware group
manager.
* Weekly stand-up meeting to communicate previous weeks
achievements and current weeks priorities.
* Organise and lead
technical projects including being the lead of Preliminary, Interim
and Critical Design Reviews as dictated by company procedures
*
Participate in Design Reviews and Project meetings being led by
others.
* Contribute to department processes and procedures
*
Creation of design pack documentation
* Creation of User
Information and manuals when required.
* Assisting Principal
Design Engineer and Project leads with project plans.
*
Collaboration and communication with full engineering team including
interacting with other Engineering disciplines to achieve department
targets.
What we are looking for (Experience,
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education)
We each bring
something to the table, and we are looking for someone who
has:
Required Experience
* A minimum of 5 years
experience in an equivalent role
* The following skills and
experience will be required. Candidates are not expected to have
experience in all areas;
o Digital circuit design including
micro-processors, FPGA's and associated high speed peripherals.
o
Analogue circuit design such as power supplies.
o RF circuit design
o Layout experience.
o EMC and CE marking experience.
o
Design for IPC
* Practical experience of PCB bring up and test
*
Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
* Strong team player with good
interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work in a team and interact
with other Engineering disciplines.
* Ability to produce results
under pressure
* Good analytical skills.
Preferred
Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
* A minimum of 7
years experience in an equivalent role.
* Experience with Altium
Designer
* The following skills and experience would also be
beneficial;
o Basic embedded firmware skills used to exercise and
test hardware designs.
o Experience of designing electronic
circuits and sub-assemblies for use in military or airborne
applications.
o Experience of designing for and test/verification
MIL-STD's and DO160.
o Test and verification using tools such as
JTAG Boundary Scan Testing
o Experience of test equipment such as
oscilloscopes, analysers and signal generators.
Education
& Certifications
* Required is a Bachelors degree in Electronics or
related subject (or work experience equivalent to)
* Masters in
Electronics or related subject is desirable.
Security
*
British Citizen or ability to obtain required security
clearance.
Travel & Working Environment
* Travel
unlikely
* Onsite working including working from home policy.
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Tiger Resourcing Group
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