Hardware Staff Engineer
Job in
East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, G74, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2026-09-15
Listing for:
Jobtailor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-15
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Test Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Lead the design and development of embedded electronic hardware for monitoring, protection, recording, and industrial instrumentation products.
- Translate system and product requirements into robust hardware designs meeting performance, reliability, regulatory, manufacturing, and cost objectives.
- Design, analyse, and review analogue, mixed-signal, digital, power, and communications circuitry for mission-critical industrial applications.
- Collaborate with Architects, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Test teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
- Drive technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex design, manufacturing, qualification, and field issues.
- Perform technical trade-off analysis involving performance, accuracy, reliability, maintainability, manufacturability, lifecycle cost, and customer requirements.
- Lead schematic design, component selection, circuit simulation, design verification, laboratory evaluation, and PCB design reviews.
- Support architecture implementation and system-level design decisions.
- Lead and contribute to technical design reviews, engineering governance activities, and development best practices.
- Define and execute hardware verification, validation, qualification, and compliance testing.
- Support New Product Introduction, sustaining engineering, product enhancements, value engineering, and component obsolescence management.
- Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and provide leadership during complex technical challenges.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and product development activities.
- Contribute to technology roadmaps and innovation initiatives.
- Champion product quality, reliability, manufacturability, maintainability, and customer value throughout the product lifecycle.
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing embedded electronic hardware products, including significant experience delivering complex designs from concept through production and lifecycle support.
- Proven experience designing mixed-signal, analogue, digital, and embedded electronic systems.
- Strong understanding of electronic design fundamentals, including signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal management, reliability, and industrial product design.
- Experience developing hardware platforms incorporating embedded processors, communication interfaces, data acquisition systems, sensing technologies, and industrial networking.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations and make sound engineering decisions within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience supporting product verification, validation, regulatory compliance, and production release processes.
- Strong communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers without direct line management responsibility.
- Preferred:
Experience designing ARM-based embedded systems, Linux-based platforms, real-time systems, and FPGA-based solutions. - Preferred:
Experience with power system monitoring, protection, fault recording, power quality, condition monitoring, or substation automation products. - Preferred:
Knowledge of IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, and other industrial communication protocols. - Preferred:
Experience with precision timing technologies including GPS, GNSS, IRIG-B, IEEE 1588 PTP, and NTP. - Preferred:
Experience designing precision sensing, signal conditioning, and measurement systems. - Preferred:
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