Job Description
Senior Hardware Engineer
Location: Rochester, Kent (4 days onsite)
Salary: £44,000 - 54,000 depending on skills and experience
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.
As a Senior Hardware Engineer you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors, and other associated safety-critical technology.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with innovating cutting-edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
What you’ll be doing: Senior Hardware Engineer
* Executing complex hardware design tasks in accordance with the hardware development plan, whilst meeting agreed timescales and allocated budgets
* Conducting hardware requirements capture, preliminary design, detailed design including a range of analysis tasks
* Coaching & developing the skills of junior team members
* Delivering design artefacts in accordance with company and industry standards
* Working with other disciplines within an integrated team
* You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role
Your skills and experiences: Senior Hardware Engineer
Essential:
* Degree/HND in electronics engineering or an equivalent qualification
* Proven knowledge and experience of digital &/or analogue electronics technologies
* Experience of working through the engineering development lifecycle, from concept to product certification
* Ability to demonstrate a good appreciation of cost and schedule constraints on designs, to meet programme needs
* An inquisitive mind-set, articulate, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable:
* Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise
* Analogue simulations tools, such as Simetrix or Spice
* System development tools, such as Enterprise Architect, Matlab, Simulink