Role: Senior Embedded Electronic Engineer
Located: Tadworth, Surrey (4x days a week onsite)
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: 37.5 hours a week, 4% Employers, Employee 4%, Death in Service Cover of 4 x basic salary, Income Protection, Private Medical
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Main Purpose:
Working within the existing team you will be involved with NPI&NPE/ developing the hardware and software of existing and new products; battery powered remote telemetry units / IoT (industrialized electronics) using complex microcontroller/ARM processors and modems that uses wireless technologies (e.g. GPRS/3G, ISM) for generating & transporting accurate data using sensors like RADAR, Temperature, Water Quality, Contamination/Smell and more. The role will cover all areas of a product’s lifecycle, electronic prototyping, design development, CAD/CAM schematic design, Artwork/layout, and technical support with contract manufacturers for quality and regulatory assessments.
Principle accountabilities:
* Responsible for Electronic /IoT product hardware through all phases of the product life cycle development
* Participate in, or when required, deliver the product development activities (circuit design, analysis, improvements, alternate parts etc.) for designated products or customers.
* Ensure that all product development specifications conform to the company engineering (R&D) design authority for customer requirements and set out specific verifications and validations implementation needs for the product assurance.
* Manage the production of complete products through PCB, Placing the components, Board Bring up and tests through platform integrations until the EOL.
* Ensure the BOM is maintained with update components that has long life and value for money.
* Design should be adhere the certification or ATEX standards to qualify the RoSH, UL & EN, FCC, CE and UK CA.
* Ensure that product and design documentation is maintained.
* Provide inputs in to the sales process as required by the Engineering Director, including attending and participating in presentations to customers or other third parties.
* Collaborate with cross functional teams to remove dependencies and risks during development life cycle and customer supports/returns etc.
* Provide technical support to customers using online ticketing system.
Knowledge / Experience Required:
* Very good knowledge electronics components, connecting the components in a circuit/ interfaces to develop a PCB.
* PCB design: layer stack-up, design rules (best practices), electro-magnetic & mechanical distribution design. Working with design review process and negotiating with internal & external electronic development house to make a successful PCB
* Produce Circuit design & schematic capture using Altium/Mentor/OraCAD/AutoDesk PCB design tool. Maintain Altium component library & 3D models and designs database.
* Undertake PCB analysis of PCB designs from engineers for RF or Thermal issues and feedback results
* Create & maintain drawing & documents to allow PCB manufacture to BS/ATEX standards
* Investigate and define answers to PCB design problems via NCR's from manufacturing.
* Capture legacy PCB designs with a view to transferring them to Altium as needed to support manufacture
* Regulatory certifications like CE, FCC, UL, EN etc.
* Low-power design for digital electronics, SMPS and LDO
* Mobile communications: GPRS/3G/4G, LPWAN/LoRa/NB-IoT
* RF and EMI/EMC design practices, CE Standards and Conformance
* Design for hazardous environments: ATEX/Explosive Environments, IP ratings
* Software design: RTOS (MQX), C++, Assembler, C#, ARM Cortex processors, Linux, Jira, SVN
* Industrial Protocols: IEC61131-3, 4-20mA, Modbus, PROFINET, M-Bus, SDI-12, WITS, DNP3
Additional Knowledge / Experience:
* Experience with HDL languages such as Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC.
* Good understanding of software languages and integration processes.
* Exceptional attention to detail and precision.
* Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving abilities.
* Experience of Eclipse based IDE’s and use of JTAG debugging tools
* Experienced user of IT equipment and Microsoft Office Software suite
Education / Experience:
* Degree level qualification in Electronic Engineering or related course. General education including A Level passes or equivalent
* At least two to three years post qualification experience in an electronic engineering or embedded programming environment.
* Good in designing and developing components such as printed circuit boards (PCB), processors, memory modules, and network components. Hands-on experience in electrical and electronics circuits using embedded using microprocessor or microcontrollers with bare metal in nature
* CAD/CAM tools: Schematic design, PCB layout, and artwork software e.g. Altium Designer, OrCAD, KiCad, Eagle, Gerber Viewers.
* Familiarity with ARM based microprocessors and microcontrollers
* Experience in ATEX design essentials with peripheral electronics components behaviours during validation/verification ( e.g. UART, SPI, ADC, Interrupts, GPIO, SRAM, Flash)
* Testing hardware prototypes and analysing and interpreting performance data.
* Generating analytic and performance reports for presentation and revision.
* Troubleshooting and diagnosing errors and suggesting suitable repairs or modifications.
* Overseeing the manufacturing process of electrical components to ensure they meet the design specifications
* Collaborating with firmware/software engineers to ensure software compatibility and integration with the hardware components.
* Testing hardware prototypes and analysing / validating and interpreting performance data.
* Full UK Driving License
How to apply?
Please send a CV to daniellchapman@peoplesource.co.uk