Senior Electronics Engineer

SAGENTIA; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that excels in product development and technology services, where innovation drives every project. As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will work within talented teams to design and develop cutting-edge solutions that enhance lives across various sectors, including medical and industrial. You will lead the charge in crafting high-quality analogue and digital circuits, collaborating with engineers from different disciplines to ensure project success. This role offers the chance to see your designs come to life in the market, all while being part of an environment that encourages creativity and technical excellence. Embrace the opportunity to grow your skills and make a significant impact in a fast-paced setting.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus Package

Benefits Package

Opportunities for Travel

Qualifications

• Proven track record in full product development lifecycle of electronics designs.
• Hands-on experience in designing analogue and digital circuits.

Responsibilities

• Design high quality analogue and digital circuits for client projects.
• Lead electronics hardware development within multidisciplinary projects.

Skills

Analogue Circuit Design

Digital Circuit Design

FPGA Hardware Design

VHDL / Verilog Programming

Project Planning

Communication Skills

Simulation Tools (Spice, RF)

Motion Control Systems

Requirements Management

Education

Degree in Electronics or Engineering

Postgraduate Qualification in Related Subject

Tools

RF Simulators

Design Simulation Tools

Job description

As a highly successful leading-edge product development and technology services company, we have been involved in several diverse and exciting electromechanical system development projects including a rapidly manufactured ventilator system for the UK government, virus detection technologies, advanced agricultural machinery, surgical robotics, novel drink dispensing technology and a next generation radiotherapy system.

Innovation is a key driver across our development projects, resulting in cutting-edge, elegant and creative solutions that improve people’s lives and the world we live in.

This role is an opportunity to work within highly talented multi-disciplinary project teams; to use your creativity and technical knowledge to develop world-leading solutions for our clients; with the added satisfaction of seeing your finished designs launched on the market.

Responsibilities

• Designing high quality analogue and digital circuits for client projects at all stages within the product development lifecycle, from feasibility through to manufacture.
• Leading the electronics hardware development within multidisciplinary projects, collaborating with software, mechanical and manufacturing engineers to decompose complex requirements and establish the most appropriate system architecture.
• Leading and/or significantly contributing to design review, FMEA and DFM activities.
• Interacting with our clients to plan projects, identify and formalise design requirements, implement, test, and ultimately hand over finished designs.
• Architecting and leading integration, issue resolution and verification activities at hardware and system level, including oversight of specialist external labs.

Requirements

• A proven track record of the full product development lifecycle of multiple electronics designs.
• A hands-on passion for designing both analogue and digital circuits.
• Passionate about learning new electronic technologies.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with excellent communication skills.
• Detailed project planning and execution experience.
• Good academic background with a degree or postgraduate qualification in electronics, engineering, or a related subject.

Additional knowledge and skills beneficial to this role

• Proven FPGA hardware design experience including VHDL / Verilog programming.
• Simulation of designs using Spice and/or RF simulators.
• Experience in motion control (actuators and sensors) and robotic systems would be advantageous.
• RF design, test and compliance to 6GHz would be advantageous.
• Experience with requirements management tools and systems would be advantageous.

A day in the life

Your work will predominately be based at our Sagentia offices in Harston, Cambridge. There may also be opportunities to travel to client sites in Europe or USA as well as to support project work at other Science Group sites. You will enjoy a fast-paced environment leading teams who solve a variety of challenges from different industries, and you will be expected to stretch yourself and demonstrate ambitions, determination, and focus.

We have dozens of projects in the medical, industrial, consumer, and food and beverage sectors, working with many of the world’s leading and best-known brands. As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will have the opportunity to lead project teams, utilising and improving on your electronic engineering competencies, and leadership skills, on projects across these sectors.

Projects can range in length from a couple of months to several years and will typically use a talented and collaborative cross-disciplinary team to provide best practise product development expertise in electronics, mechanical and software design.

You will be offered a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.

About Sagentia Innovation

We help to transform possibilities into successful products, combining expertise in science and technology with our love of invention and problem-solving.