Job Description
Senior or Principal Electronic Engineers
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: £55,000-£80,000 + benefits
Jackson Hogg is delighted to be working with a growing defence organisation as 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:
1. Lead the design, development and validation of electronic systems for complex electro-optical and autonomous products.
2. Define electronics architectures, balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, environmental constraints and long-term maintainability.
3. Act as design authority, setting and upholding electronics engineering standards across the organisation.
4. Oversee and review schematic capture and PCB design, ensuring robustness across power integrity, signal integrity and EMC.
5. Guide verification, validation and compliance, working with external test houses to achieve EMC, sa...