Senior Hardware Engineer

Important: Must have sole British Nationality (due to UK eyes-only projects), and have, or be capable of obtaining, UK security clearance (SC).

Benefits: Full company benefits, flexible working and some remote working potentials.

We are looking a Hardware Engineer who can operate in a fast-paced environment as part of a multi-disciplined team across all aspects of standard and bespoke secure digital design solutions to join one of our major defence clients.

As a Hardware Engineer on the team, you will be involved in all aspects of a challenging and rewarding engineering role covering design, test, production support and customer unit evaluation and commissioning.

• Ownership of the design and delivery of hardware throughout the development lifecycle
• Specification and design of high-speed digital boards for products and test equipment
• Design, build and test of development and production test equipment
• Schematic capture and support of PCB layout
• Co-ordinate design with Mechanical, Software and System engineers
• Hardware design proving testing
• Support to software and system testing
• Production of development and production test processes and procedures.
• Support to manufacturing, resolving test and production issues, training production staff
• Resolution of design, obsolescence and production issues on existing products
• Integration of Data At Rest products into customer platforms

• Full development life-cycle experience
• Excellent understanding of electronic design fundamentals, high speed digital design and signal integrity
• Proven track record of digital circuit development
• Adept with hardware testing and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, power supplies and multi-meters.
• Proficient with industry standard CAD toolsets (e.g. Cadence or Mentor Schematic & Layout Tools)
• Degree in Electronic Engineering or similar discipline
• Must be a UK national and have or, be capable of obtaining, UK security clearance

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous
• Experience supporting production
• Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacture (DFM) methodologies and techniques
• Embedded firmware design (C/C++/assembler/Python).
• Software design for test and test equipment development
• Writing test specifications and carrying out HW and system testing