Senior Electronics Engineer

Copello Global; Marlow; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Director | Copello Global | Engineering Recruitment | Talent Solutions | MSP | RPO | Defence | Engineering | Information Security

Copello are working with a defence client who are looking for an Electronics Engineer to join their Avionics Business Unit who are responsible for designing, developing and supporting a portfolio of products. We are looking for an electronics engineer to bring their experience of electronics circuit design and development to projects within this portfolio. The successful candidate will have a systems thinking mind-set, coupled with extensive knowledge of complex product development.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership for the design and development of electronic sub-systems for the aerospace and defence market
• Deliver project tasks to schedule, cost and quality while adhering to internal processes and best practice.
• Research, design, develop and prototype electronic solutions in support of product development.
• Characterise, test and down-select components for performance and cost.
• Schematic capture of mixed signal circuit Design (Analogue, RF and Digital) using Altium or similar.
• Test, characterisation and verification of prototype designs
• Circuit simulation using LT Spice, Agilent ADS
• Develop, write and deploy software to aid evaluation of electronic devices or automate test equipment using C# or similar.
• Provide inputs to the team to ensure designs meet requirements for manufacture utilising DFx and/or lean concepts.
• Use various laboratory equipment such as VNAs, RF Spectrum Analyser and Oscilloscopes etc to conduct measurements.
• Prepare documentation such as Technical Reports, Production Test Schedules etc
• Experience in design of RF, High Speed digital or Power Supply electronics modules
• Good knowledge of current RF technologies including – low noise receiver design, RF sampling ADCs and DACs, PLL/Synthesisers, digital attenuators, receiver protectors, power amplifier and lumped-element circuit design.
• Knowledge of RF Antenna Systems and awareness of Phase Array Antennas.
• Knowledge of GPS and its vulnerabilities would be advantageous but not essential.
• Knowledge of common interface busses such as SPI, I2C and PMBus would be advantageous.
• Good knowledge of current high speed digital technologies, CPLD, Microprocessor, FPGA, DDR Memory etc.
• Experience of deriving and capturing system level requirements from high level customer requirements
• Experience in Project life-cycle delivery from bids to operation.
• Experience of design or manufacturing in the aviation industry.

Qualifications and Required Experience

• Team working ability and drive to deliver on time
• C experience in an embedded environment
• Experience of embedded processors and real-time operating systems
• Experience of interfacing with hardware devices and peripherals
• Solid understanding of software development life-cycles and processes
• Experience of requirement analysis, software design and software architecture
• Experience with source control tools such as SubVersion and Git
• Behavioural: self-starting, adaptable, problem solving
• C++ experience in an embedded environment
• Object Oriented Design and Programming experience
• Familiarity with desktop application, GUI/event-based design
• Knowledge of issue-tracking tools, such as Jira.
• Knowledge of releasing software to Production
• Knowledge of DO-178 would be advantageous

Marlow – 4 days pw on site, 1 day at home

Please note SC Clearance is required for this role

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Design

Industries

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing and Defense and Space Manufacturing