Senior Electronics Designer

Wapice Ltd; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Occupational healthcare

Bike benefit

Lunch benefit

Training & certifications

Job summary

Wapice Ltd. seeks a Senior Electronics Designer to lead end-to-end electronics design, from concept through to production, shaping hardware architecture and modules.

The role spans sensor interfaces, embedded platforms, and Linux-capable SoCs, with a strong emphasis on system-level integration. Based in Finland with preferred locations Tampere or Vaasa, the role offers a hybrid working model and a path to broaden expertise across multiple industries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on electronics product development experience.
• Experience with CE/FCC/UL compliance workflows.
• Experience partitioning hardware, firmware, and FPGA functional boundaries.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complete electronic designs from concept to production.
• Define system-level architecture for PCBs, modules and units.
• Collaborate closely with software and other engineering disciplines.
• Champion device-level architecture across diverse projects.

Skills

Schematic design

PCB layout

Hardware architecture

System-level design

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Mentor PADS

Altium

Job description

Build the future with Wapice! At Wapice, you will design industrial electronics for real-world products across a wide range of industries. You will work hands-on with everything from sensor and measurement electronics to embedded processor platforms, I/O and radio interfaces, and Linux-capable SoCs. Our projects span the full product development lifecycle – from early prototypes and architecture definition to testing, debugging and production.

You will have the opportunity to take ownership of complete electronic designs and contribute to system-level architecture, working closely with software and other engineering disciplines. Depending on your experience, you can shape both the technical solution and the way the product moves from an idea into production.

Read more about our team's expertise and customer solutions here.

We are now looking for a new Senior Electronics Designer to join us!

What kind of skills are we looking for?

We value a broad set of competencies and a genuine drive to keep learning. To succeed in this role, you should bring experience in both electronics and device-architecture definition.

Expertise required for this role

• Schematic design and PCB layout
• Experience with EDA tools such as Mentor PADS, Altium or similar
• Hands-on electronics product development experience, from requirements to working hardware
• Compliance and product certification workflows (CE, FCC, UL, etc.)
• Partitioning system functionality between hardware, firmware and programmable logic
• System-level electronics architecture covering PCBs, modules and complete units

What we consider an advantage

• High-speed digital design and SI/PI analysis or simulation
• Production test planning, DfM and DfT
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: CPU/MCU systems, RF, FPGA, power electronics or analog front-ends
• Embedded software bring-up and debugging

We expect you to have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics or related field. We are looking for a Senior Electronics Designer with 5+ years of hands‑on experience in electronics product development. You do not need to be an expert in every area listed above, but we value broad technical understanding and the ability to take responsibility for electronics and device-level architecture. Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills and willingness to challenge yourself in varying projects are the key factors to succeed. We hope you share our passion for electronics and can demonstrate it through your previous work and projects.

This is a permanent, full-time position. The preferred locations for the role are Vaasa and Tampere, where our electronics teams are based. However, the position can also be based elsewhere in Finland. While most of our roles require only English language skills, Finnish language skills are considered an advantage.

In line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, we are committed to sharing the salary range for the role before the interview stage.

You can read more about our culture and working at Wapice at our career site. Check out our social media channels as well - Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Why join Wapice

Wapice is a full-service software company like no other. Our solutions are used by domain leading industrial companies around the world. Our expertise ranges from electronics design, software development in embedded systems and data science up to modern mobile and cloud based software solutions. We have well-defined and documented electronics design processes which help you to succeed in your role and allow you to grow your competence through collaboration with colleagues through the design process. It is also our priority to offer a great workplace. We provide several employment benefits, including:

• A flexible hybrid working model
• Several health-supporting benefits, like a vast occupational healthcare system, annual sports, culture and wellbeing balance benefit (Epassi) and a bike benefit
• Work and free time insurances
• A lunch benefit
• Many recreational and community-boosting staff events
• Various ways for competence development: mentoring, courses, certifications, tech coffee breaks, technology studies, E-books etc.
• We offer permanent full-time employments but also flexible part-time opportunities if you prefer shorter hours to ensure your work-life balance.

The application period

The application period closes on September 27.

If you have questions about the recruitment process or working at Wapice in general, you can contact People & Culture Partner Nani Laaksonen ([e-mail], [phone]) or People & Culture Manager Susanna Kytöharju ([e-mail], [phone]). If you have more technical questions, you can reach out to Risto Pajula (Head of Embedded Solutions segment, [e-mail], [phone]).

Wapice is a technology and digitalization partner established in 1999 and employing over 330 people in nine cities around Finland. We deliver solutions to globally leading industrial companies mainly in the fields of energy technology and moving machinery. We help our customers transform into digital champions for creating a better future.

Our competence ranges from electronics design, software development in embedded software and data science up to modern mobile and cloud based software solutions. We also support our customers in future technologies such as Artifial Intelligence, 5G and IoT with our expertise. In addition to software services, our product portfolio consists of three cloud based products which are IoT-TICKET®, Summium® and EcoReaction.