Analogue and Digital Electronics Engineer

Filtronic; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Filtronic is seeking an engineer to contribute to the design and development of RF and mmWave solutions. You'll focus on digital circuit design and systems integration, collaborating with a team of experts to meet performance and reliability standards. This hands-on role requires technical expertise in circuit development, schematic capture, and problem resolution, offering a competitive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Pension Plans

Life Assurance

Leave Package

Work From Home

Training & Development

Qualifications

• Experience in designing electronic circuits for telecommunications.
• Familiarity with digital interface standards like PCIe, USB, and Ethernet.
• Proven ability in collaborating with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and test digital circuits for high-speed communications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions.
• Conduct troubleshooting and resolve digital circuit issues.

Skills

Analogue circuit design

Digital circuit design

Troubleshooting

Problem-solving

Schematic capture

Job description

Filtronic delivers cutting-edge RF and mmWave solutions that power the future of high-frequency communications. From satellite links to next-generation sensing systems, we design and manufacture high-performance components and subsystems—including SSPAs, filters, and transceivers—ensuring seamless connectivity and precision at the highest frequencies.

Working with a team of experienced RF, electronics and mechanical engineers you will contribute to the design of radio frequency products with responsibility for analogue and digital circuit design and schematic capture, ensuring that electrical performance, quality, cost and manufacturability requirements are met.

Requirements

• Together with inputs provided by our team of RF engineers, you will design electronic circuits incorporating mixed technologies for telecommunications, satellite and defence products
• Detailed analogue and digital electronic circuit specification and design including component selection and circuit simulation
• Work with various digital interface standards and protocols such as PCIe, USB, I2C, SPI, and Ethernet to ensure compatibility and high performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and firmware engineers, to ensure seamless integration of analogue/digital solutions into larger systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and communication issues related to digital circuits and interfaces
• Perform system-level integration and testing to ensure circuits meet performance and reliability requirements
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and DIFI-related standards
• Schematic capture
• Definition of circuit board requirements including materials and layer stack-up
• Delivery of fully verified and documented designs in line with project defined technical, schedule and cost constraints
• Thermal, MTBF, component derating analysis and tolerance analysis
• Undertake design verification and validation including preparation of test specifications, test reports and reliability testing/evaluation in our fully equipped labs
• Pro-actively participate in design reviews and to initiate design reviews in order to mitigate risk when appropriate
• Handle component obsolescence issues and propose suitable alternatives
• Problem-solving and fault diagnosis of manufactured products during product introduction, including definition and train-out of diagnostic procedures
  
  
  

You will be specifically responsibility for the:

• Specification, design, development, and test of digital systems and circuits for high-speed communications
• Digital circuit design utilising FPGAs, glue logic, ADCs, DACs & microprocessors
• Low voltage module power supply design including linear and switch mode PSUs
• Component bias circuit design
• Analogue circuits including signal conditioning, filters, op-amp
  
  
  

Benefits

• Pension Plans
• Life Assurance
• Leave Package
• Work From Home
• Training & Development