Senior Hardware Engineer

Busy Bee Recruitment; Ely; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Hardware Engineer - Electronics

We are exclusively partnering with an emerging technology developer based in Ely on their latest recruitment drive which will see the company double in size. A startup, in R&D stage, financially backed by a wider global organisation, that innovates and creates exceptional products, technologies and services that will improve the lives of people while collaborating with some of the UK's leading research-intensive universities. Within walking distance of Ely train station this role is accessible from both London and Cambridge within 1 hour. The successful candidate will be at the centre of a high-performance R&D Team that operates under the core SCRUM principles.

Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire

Hours: 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday (option to work from home on Wednesdays)

Hourly Rate / Salary: Circa £55,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, after 3-years of successful performance, it will carry an additional 1-day of annual leave for every additional 3-years of service until the total annual leave reaches 30-days a year, Contributory Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, paid membership fees for Sports Initiatives, Performance based Share Options after 3-years of employment.

Duties:

1. Electronics design process, schematic capture, component selection, simulation, and PCB layout.
2. Evaluate and introduce new technologies, new electronics laboratory requirements & certifications to improve existing facilities.
3. Ensure hardware designs are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory and safety standards.
4. Co-ordinate early prototype builds, taking a hands-on approach to hardware design.
5. Design debugging and verification by taking part.
6. Leading the subsystem level DFMEA activities to help identify risks and suitable mitigations.
7. Perform requirements analysis and requirements.
8. Review and set requirements for firmware/FPGA engineers to produce test specifications.
9. Ensuring test procedures and processes are compatible with the CI of products and technologies.
10. Contributing to meetings through document preparation, presentations.
11. Estimating time and effort required for hardware (and firmware) activities and delivering to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
12. Reviewing technical proposals.
13. Assist with providing accurate estimates.
14. Define, architect, develop, document, and Test FPGA firmware.

What our client is looking for from you:

1. Experience as a SCRUM team member is an advantage.
2. 5+ years of full life cycle experience in the R&D of Commercial Products and Technologies.
3. Extensive industry experience, working on the development of production-ready systems and the design of multi-layer PCB's (stack-up design).
4. Electronics design in CAD (preferably Altium but also Mentor-Graphics), both schematic and layout.
5. Experience with microprocessor and microcontroller designs, communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Profibus, etc), high-speed communication interfaces and buses.
6. Design for EMC compliance design for manufacturing and test (DFM, DFT).
7. Experience with power supply design in a mobile or low power environment, memory subsystems.
8. Ability to use SCRUM project management principles.

Skills that are a distinct advantage:

1. Experience in developing and implementing complex imaging or tomographic devices such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, etc is an advantage.
2. Experience in Electromagnetic Tomography Circuit Design such as ECT, EIT, ERT, MIT, CIFT is a distinct advantage.

If you have not received a response within 3-5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Busy Bee Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency for this Permanent vacancy.