Electronics Design Engineer

Electronic Design Engineer

12 months

£81.90 per hour (Inside IR35)

Defence Marine

2-3 days per week - Portsmouth

This is a technical role relating to the Electronic aspects of hardware design & test.

The Role Holder will.

Generate and/or support electronic design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.

Generate and/or support detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of engineering issues.

Participate in all aspects of board and unit-level design and test including their interfaces with higher levels

Typical duties include :

The role holder will undertake some or all of the following tasks :-

* Detailed electronic circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and

liaising with PCB design teams.

* Specification of bespoke procured hardware.

* Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques, including support to EMC test

houses and customer installations.

* Generate design documentation and technical reports.

* Interfacing with related disciplines.

* Assist the development of higher level system designs.

* Assist the development of technical requirement specifications

* Support system integration activities

* Work with embedded software and PLD engineers as necessary

* Contribute to progress, peer, and design reviews

Knowledge:

• Generating component level electronic designs for introduction into volume production.
• Digital design including processor interfacing, memory devices, PLD interfacing, UARTs, SPI, I2C, Ethernet etc.

* ADC/DAC devices and techniques

• Analogue design including op-amps, transistor-level design, control loops and and low noise techniques.
• High power techniques.
• Design proving, integration, and defect resolution
• Gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
• Able to work within cost and timescale constraints

Skills: (Recommended max 5 /statements)

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
• Experience of low-noise analogue techniques
• Experience of high power techniques (kW level)
• Experience of FPGA/CPLD development
• Business Expertise (Requirements of the position for knowledge and expertise about the business rather than the technical expertise)
• The role holder:
• Will have a good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of a design team plus an understanding of the work of the design team.
• Will have a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design
• Will have an awareness of how cost and timescale constraints may impact business performance
• Leadership (Requirements of the position for providing leadership and guidance to others)
• The role holder:
• Is responsible for quality of own work and safety of self.
• May be required to mentor and coach team members according to seniority of appointment.
• Problem Solving (Breadth of mental skills required in order to perform the position)
• The role holder:
• Is required to make judgements based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations.
• Must assess the viability and applicability of solutions, evaluates alternatives based on an understanding of common or previous solutions to problems and analysis of factual information.
• Nature of Impact (Impact on business by detailing the overall responsibility associated with the job)
• The role holder is responsible for the quality and timely delivery of own work. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.
• Area of Impact (Business area impacted Delivery/Functional)
• Performance of the team and/or solution is directly affected by the job, and will have an impact on other teams involved in the task or work.
• Interpersonal Skills (type of people skills required to perform the job)
• The role holder:
• Requires good communication and diplomacy skills.
• Must understand detailed technical instructions and be able to communicate complex technical information to others.