Senior Hardware Engineer

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** Senior Hardware Test Engineer
** locations

United Kingdom - Cambridge    time type

Full time    posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago    job requisition idR
002447    
** Career Growth, Flexibility and Collaboration!
** Entrust is dedicated to securing a world in motion by enabling trusted identities, payments, and data protection around the globe. Headquartered in Minnesota, we offer our colleagues the ability to work globally, in a flexible and collaborative environment. Our team makes an impact!!  
** The Company:
** Entrust relies on curious, dedicated and innovative individuals whom anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust’s technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers.  
** We Believe:
** Securing identities is most effective when we value all identities. We are committed to ensuring that, through diversity and inclusion, the many voices that make up our communities are heard. From unconscious bias training for managers to global affinity groups that create connections both within and across our enterprise, Entrust expects and encourages all individuals to accept and respect one another.

And, of course, to be themselves. Senior Hardware Test Engineer
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* Position Overview:

** A Hardware Engineering opportunity has arisen in a growing, dynamic and collaborative team as a result of a demand for new product designs. The team is situated in our fantastic Cambridge office with a well equipped hardware lab including two environmental chambers.
We are looking for a hardware test engineer who can take responsibility for testing new and existing hardware designs with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and security to meet the exacting needs of our customers and security certification requirements.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of working in an electronics laboratory environment and testing embedded electronics designs. Experience working with secure products (especially where formal external accreditation is sought) would be a particular advantage.

Hardware Engineering at Entrust comprises Electronic Engineering, High Speed Digital Design, Mechanical Engineering and Thermal Engineering – the full scope of the physical product platform.

As the only hardware test engineer for the business, you will support all product development activities across the hardware, software, and production teams, delivering product prototyping requirements and general test equipment needs.
** Responsibilities:
*** work within an Agile product development framework
* develop excellent working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and colleagues
* hands-on development of product subsystems
* carry out hardware prototyping and validation activities
* plan work collaboratively with the whole Engineering team to ensure that dependencies and planning commitments are understood and observed
* regularly prototype, integrate and demonstrate hardware platforms as part of “system demos”
* ensure on-going change control, testability and manufacturability of our hardware designs
* drive continuous improvement and self-development
* look after the laboratory environment
* reworking and modifying PCBs
* executing tests
* automating testing
* designing test fixtures and other equipment
* assessing customer returned products
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* Qualifications:

** We are looking for candidates who possess:
* an ability to take the initiative with testing of new and existing hardware designs
* knowledge of embedded electronic designs involving software functionality
* familiarity with electronic test equipment

It is expected that the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate relevant experience in some of the following areas:
* IPC qualifications
* Surface mount rework
* Python scripting
* Environmental testing
* Test fixture design
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* Basic Qualifications:

** Vocational qualification, Apprenticeship or Degree qualified, or equivalent, in a relevant technical subject, e.g. Electronic Engineering.
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* Preferred…