Electronic Design Engineer

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Pension

Flexible working

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection LTD is seeking an Electronic Design Engineer to design and develop electronic circuitry and firmware for portable equipment in a dynamic R&D team. The role offers a varied and autonomous position within a well-established business based near Watford.

You will work on analogue/digital design, embedded firmware (ARM STM32), and PCB design using Altium; exposure to high voltage technology is advantageous and hands-on hardware development is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in analog and digital electronic design.
• Knowledge of embedded firmware for ARM microcontrollers (STM32).
• Experience with high voltage technology designs is advantageous.
• Schematic capture using Altium or similar.
• Familiar with PCB design and circuit simulation tools (LTSpice).

Responsibilities

• Product design of electronic circuitry and firmware for portable electrical equipment.
• Maintenance of existing product line, e.g. due to component obsolescence, changes in standards, etc.

Skills

Electronic design

Electrical design

Firmware programming

C programming

ARM STM32

Tools

Altium

LTSpice

Job description

Are you an Electronic Design Engineer looking to step up into a more senior, responsible and autonomous position within a cutting-edge R&D team? We are looking for candidates having good electronic circuit design and electrical design with some basic firmware programming experience. Any exposure to higher voltage such as mains or EV would be an advantage. If you want a varied and dynamic role within a well established and successful business - based at our site in Watford, this role is the next step in your Electronic Design Engineering career.

Basic Salary

Up to £75,000

Benefits

• 30 days holiday rising with service
• Full access to company benefits package including pension
• Flexible working within core hours

Location

Watford with free on-site parking.

Commutable Locations

Hemel Hempstead, St. Albans, Hatfield, Harrow, High Wycombe, Luton, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Slough, Maidenhead, Milton Keynes, Hitchin, Bletchley, Northampton, Bedford, Aylesbury, Guildford, Reading.

Job Description

As our Electronic Design Engineer working in our R&D department, you will be designing and developing electronic circuitry and firmware for portable and hand held electrical equipment. You will be redesigning existing products for annual product launches.

Key Responsibilities

• Product design of electronic circuitry and firmware for portable electrical equipment.
• Maintenance of existing product line, e.g. due to component obsolescence, changes in standards, etc

Person Specification

You're an experienced Electronic Design Engineer with some exposure to an R & D environment. You have hands-on experience of both analogue and digital electronic design.

Any experience of design / new product development of instrumentation or measurement equipment would be an obvious benefit.

Knowledge of embedded firmware design for ARM-based microcontrollers (e.g. STM32) would be of benefit, as would proficiency with PCB design and circuit simulation tools (e.g. Altium, LTSpice).

Candidates with inverter development experience are generally strong matches, as are some candidates with EV BMS design.

• Programming of real time, embedded firmware.
• Proficiency in C
• Analogue & digital electronic design.
• Schematic capture using Altium or similar.
• Experience of high voltage technology designs
• Designing products to a set of legal / safety standards.

Any exposure to ST MCU (Micro Controller Unit) design would be an advantage.

The Company

We're approaching 100 years in business, we're a well-respected manufacturer and brand of portable & hand-held electronic instrumentation. With a heavy focus and investment on R&D and New Product Development, we're genuinely a market leader for innovation in our industry sector.

Prospects

Regular salary reviews and potential to develop your career with a well established and growing business.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Electronic Design Engineer, Electrical Design Engineer, Firmware Engineer, Systems Engineer - C, C++, MCU, Electrical Test & Measurement, Analogue Electrical Design. Low Voltage Systems, High voltage technology, Instrumentation, Product design, Research and Development (R&D). Electronic Circuit Design, Altium, LTSpice, STM32, Microcontrollers, PCB Design.