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Sr. Electronics Design Engineer – Mat Char
High Wycombe United Kingdom
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Responsibilities
Location High Wycombe, BuckinghamshireGB Job ID REQ-055431
Purpose
A key contributor to the design, development, and validation of complex electronic systems and circuits for new and existing products. Provides technical insight throughout the product lifecycle from concept to production, ensuring designs meet performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements while working collaboratively within multifunctional project teams.
Must have a pro-active approach and work well within multifunctional project teams. The role requires the person to actively drive design quality and performance by championing a peer review process, undertaking failure mode analysis, and planning suitable risk mitigation activities.
Responsibilities
* Design circuits and perform tests and evaluations for design verification & validation.
* Use technical knowledge to help determine the most effective solution for complex problems spanning multiple technical disciplines.
* Propose technology concepts that can be realized in existing products or new product designs.
* Work in conjunction with scientists and other engineers to prove out designs.
* Coordinate with members of cross functional teams to resolve technical issues.
* Develop measures to support initiatives and strategies.
* Apply a high degree of innovation toward developing advanced methodologies and technologies.
* Provide technical insight to minimize risk and maximize opportunity.
* Recognize potential new products and work with internal staff, customers and potential partners to influence their technical and business impact.
Qualifications
Required:
* Bachelor’s degree required in electrical engineering or closely related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
* Minimum of 7+ years of recent design engineering experience in a high technology environment.
* Low level Analogue design experience with focus on instrumentation or other low noise applications.
* Proven track record of high SNR designs with experience in analogue signal processing to extract low level signals from noisy environment with application of suitable low noise filtering techniques is a must.
* Experience with multilayer PCB design from library creation and generation to implementation of stack and generation of production pack for manufacturers.
* Ability to create and analyze advanced analog and digital circuit designs using state of the art components.
* Experience with IPC standards and PCB manufacturing from electronic design perspective.
* Hands-on experience in testing and troubleshooting PCBAs is mandatory.
* Possess skills to utilize industry standard CAD packages (e.g., OrCAD, Altium) for rapid transition to fully functional and reliable hardware. Effective knowledge and use of high-level design languages is essential.
* Ability to evaluate and troubleshoot with standard test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DVMs).
Desirable:
* Ability to use advanced simulation and analysis tools in problem solving (e.g., PSpice circuit analysis).
* Knowledge of manufacturing and assembly processes to develop designs which are cost-effective and reliable.
* High voltage power supply design experience.
* Experience in design for EMC and following safety and functional standards to maintain the product’s compliance.
* Ability to apply noise cancellation, filtering and isolation techniques to efficiently design PCB.
* Bare metal programming using 8, 16, 32-bit microcontrollers.
* Experience in communication protocols design with I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet.
* Experience FPGA/VHDL advantageous.
Preferred Characteristics
* Ability to work independently or as part of a large team.
* Possessing a task- and goal-oriented mindset.
* Analytical thinking driven by data.
* Ability to see both the small and the big picture.
* Possessing strong organizational skills.
* Problem solving aptitude.
* Attention to detail.
* Adaptable to change.
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