Electronics Hardware Engineer

Electronics Hardware Engineer About the Company

With a justifiably proud history stretching back to 1958, this globally recognised leader in OEM hydraulic test, and motion simulation systems develops innovative solutions are growing to meet ever more demanding customer testing specifications. Products are sold and installed worldwide via their direct sales, and commissioning teams from operations based in UK, USA, and China.

• Develop new hardware, and support existing hardware products for existing servo-hydraulic systems as well as new applications
• Selection, and maintenance of design tools
• Maintenance of electronic drawings
• Support PC software team to develop prototype code to support new hardware
• Develop new functions and features in embedded DSP, and microcontroller code
• Create prototype hardware, and software
• Testing, and validation
• Responsible for conformance to standards of electronic hardware
• Contributing to design, and innovation of new features to respond to customer requirements
• Interface with sales to clarify customer needs, feasibility of requirements
• Support of production in calibration, set-up, and test
• Developing, and suggesting alternative solutions to customer requirements
• Dealing with all electronic manufacturing procurement including Bills of Materials

• Experience of supporting electronics, and embedded processors in a control environment
• Significant past experience in a similar role
• Customer service focus with good interpersonal skills
• Team player, able to collaborate with others, and willing to share ideas
• Prepared to travel as, and when required

• Design of digital circuits utilising FPGA devices (ALTERA Cyclone)
• Design, and integration of embedded DSP (TI 54X and 67X series) and USB
• Design of high quality, low noise analogue circuits for interfacing transducer signals to ADCs and DACs
• Schematic Capture, and PCB Layout (using Altium if possible)
• Complex FPGA Design using VHDL in ALTERA Quartus, and Modelsim simulation
• Help with support of existing embedded C software for DSP using Texas Instruments Code Composer

25 days holiday, early finishes plus annual reviews