Electronic Hardware Design Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Electronic Hardware Design Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing electronic systems for manufacture, ideally in an automotive environment. You will work to deadlines, communicate effectively, and embody our culture of finding ways to say 'yes', supporting engineers, meeting commitments, and delivering excellent solutions.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Architectural development of electronic systems to automotive processes and standards
• Circuit design, analysis, and documentation
• Design debugging, verification, and validation testing
• Ownership of designs, devising solutions, and solving problems
• Appropriate documentation of designs for long-term product support
• Identify areas for improvement, including tools, techniques, and processes

Experience – Highly Desirable:

• Architectural development of electronic systems
• Circuit design, including H-bridges, solenoid, motor, and inductive load interfaces
• High and low-side MOSFET switches
• Current sensing and measurement
• Common op-amp circuits, comparators
• Automotive microcontrollers with integrated peripheral functions
• External-world analogue and digital interfaces
• Communications interfaces: SPI, I2C, CAN, LIN, and Ethernet
• Power supplies: linear regulators and switched-mode
• Design commission and debug
• PCB design, layout, and routing using third-party layout resources
• Analogue circuit simulation for analysis and performance prediction
• Document creation, including specifications, design descriptions, and test reports

Experience – Desirable:

• Design for automotive environments
• Design of safety-related hardware and functionally safe hardware development
• PCB design layout and routing using PCB tools
• Design for reliability; derating of components
• Reliability analysis, FMEA
• Taking a design from architecture through to production
• Design for manufacture
• Design for test
• Design for qualification; EMC, environmental
• Product qualification; EMC and environmental testing
• Writing simple hardware test software
• Degree or higher qualification in electronics engineering or a closely related discipline

Previous Engineering Tools & Lab Experience:

• Schematic capture – Altium preferably
• PCB layout viewers, ODB++, and gerber viewers
• SPICE circuit simulators
• Use of common lab bench equipment; scopes, signal generators, DMMs, etc.
• Soldering of through-hole and SMT components