Electronics Design Engineer

Electronics Design Engineer V06664 BAE Broad oak 1-2 days a week on site 24 months contract £60.63 PAYE  HOLS £8.82 PAY £81.90 Umbrella Charge £87.55 Typical duties include
-Detailed digital circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and preparing guidance for PCB design teams.
• VHDL design, code, simulation, test, and integration and embedded IP.
• 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 including EMC, systems engineering, mechanical/thermal engineering, Integrated Logistics Support, Safety, Product Data Management, and manufacturing areas.
• Adherence to Engineering Lifecycle and contributing to progress, peer, and design reviews.
• Take an active role in technical team meetings
• Work with embedded software and board design engineers as necessary
• Assist in the development of higher level system designs as necessary
• Assist in the development of technical requirement specifications
• Support system integration activities Knowledge:
• Experience of generating component level PCB designs for introduction into volume production.
• Significant experience of developing FPGA/CPLD designs
• Experience of board-level digital design including processor interfacing, memory devices, PLD interfacing etc.
• Experienced in digital interface techniques such as UARTs, SPI, I2C, Ethernet etc.
• Experience of design proving, integration, and defect resolution.
• Experience of gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
• Able to work within cost and timescale constraints where realistic
• Able to estimate cost and timescales of own activities

Skills:

• Has 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.
• Has a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design
• Has an awareness of how cost and timescale constraints may impact business performance
• 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
• Requires good communication and diplomacy skills.
• Must understand detailed technical instructions and be able to communicate complex technical information to others Desirable Skills
• Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
• Experience of ADC/DAC devices and techniques
• Knowledge/experience of DSP techniques