Senior Hardware Engineer

Our client, a designer and manufacturer of flight deck avionics, data acquisition systems, instrumentation and life support equipment require a Senior Hardware Engineer for their Hampshire office.

Purpose of the Role

The main purpose of the role is to will be to develop and implement structured engineering solutions to meet programme requirements across the whole development lifecycle in accordance with customer requirements, legislation, human factors and business needs. The post holder will be responsible for the control of their own work to meet agreed technical, quality, cost and schedule requirements.

Key Duties

• Capture and define requirements through a disciplined and rigorous approach to requirements management and ask challenging questions about the requirements to ensure understanding.
• Construct and implement embedded engineering solutions including detailed design, contribution to technical reviews and performance optimisation.
• Generate, perform and validate results of verification plans, test plans, analysis, test case design and other specific kinds of tests including flight tests, system tests, development tests, unit tests, component tests, integration tests, regression tests, stress tests, acceptance tests and qualification tests as appropriate.
• Generate work products conforming to all aspects of technical and quality requirements by following robust configuration control, review and change management processes.
• Assist in the compilation of plans, estimates, task lists and risk management plans in support of programme objectives, project estimates and bids.
• Work with customers, other engineering disciplines and other internal departments across the whole development process and respond to their requests in a timely and professional manner at both company and customers’ premises as required.
• Perform internal project activities and work with external sub-contract organisations, whilst maintaining focus on achieving goals with a positive can-do attitude.
• Contribute to continual process improvement, in support of the company business and strategic objectives.
• Undertake any other engineering related tasks commensurate with this post as required by the IP Team Lead.

Candidate Requirements

Candidates must possess proven and extensive electronic hardware design skills. This should include experience of the complete design life cycle from interpretation of a requirements specification through design, development, debugging and documentation to design proving and certification.

Candidates must have recent, relevant experience of at least 3 or more of the following:-
• Designing microprocessor circuitry
• Designing analogue circuitry (e.g. amplifiers, filters and signal sampling)
• Logic design and schematic capture techniques
• Low voltage power supply and/or power switching techniques
• Designing to meet EMC and/or lightning design protection requirements

Experience of preparing circuit board and equipment level test specifications is also required.

Candidates should be qualified to BSc or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or a closely related discipline and have significant relevant post-graduate experience in engineering.

This position entails travel throughout the UK and to Europe or the USA up to four times a year.

This position offers a salary of circa £50K with excellent benefits etc.