Senior or Principal Electronic Engineers Newcastle Upon Tyne Salary: £50,000-£75,000 + benefits Jackson Hogg is delighted to be working with a growing defence organisation to being a Senior or a Principal Electronic Engineer to lead the design and delivery of advanced electronic systems used in electro-optical products and autonomous tracking platforms. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who wants end-to-end ownership and technical authority. You’ll operate at a system level while staying close to the hardware, driving designs from concept through certification and into deployment. Principal Electronic Engineer Key Responsibilities: * Lead the design, development and validation of electronic systems for complex electro-optical and autonomous products. * Define electronics architectures, balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, environmental constraints and long-term maintainability. * Act as design authority, setting and upholding electronics engineering standards across the organisation. * Oversee and review schematic capture and PCB design, ensuring robustness across power integrity, signal integrity and EMC. * Guide verification, validation and compliance, working with external test houses to achieve EMC, safety and environmental certification. * Take ownership across the full product lifecycle – from requirements an...