Electronics Design Engineer

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

JAM Recruitment Ltd is seeking an Electronic Design Engineer for a 12-month contract in Portsmouth, delivering electronic hardware design and test for Defence Marine. The role focuses on electronics from concept to completion and interfaces with embedded software and PLD engineers.

The position involves detailed circuit design, design verification, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, with a rate of £81.90 per hour Inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Proven capability to generate electronic designs from concept to prototype.
• Experience with analogue and digital electronics, including high-power techniques.
• Ability to work within cost and timescale constraints.

Responsibilities

• Detailed electronic circuit design including component selection and liaison with PCB design teams.
• Design verification using simulations and tests, including EMC support.
• Generate design documentation and technical reports.
• Interfacing with embedded software and PLD engineers as necessary.
• Support system integration activities

Skills

Electronic design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

EMC considerations

High power techniques

Job description

Electronic Design Engineer

12 months

£81.90 per hour (Inside IR35)

Defence Marine

2-3 days per week - Portsmouth

This is a technical role relating to the Electronic aspects of hardware design & test.

Generate and/or support electronic design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.

Generate and/or support detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of engineering issues.

Participate in all aspects of board and unit-level design and test including their interfaces with higher levels.

The Role Holder will.

Typical duties include :

The role holder will undertake some or all of the following tasks :-

• Detailed electronic circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and liaising with PCB design teams.
• Specification of bespoke procured hardware.
• Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques, including support to EMC test houses and customer installations.
• Generate design documentation and technical reports.
• Interfacing with related disciplines.
• Assist the development of higher level system designs.
• Assist the development of technical requirement specifications
• Support system integration activities
• Work with embedded software and PLD engineers as necessary
• Contribute to progress, peer, and design reviews

Knowledge:

• Generating component level electronic designs for introduction into volume production.
• Digital design including processor interfacing, memory devices, PLD interfacing, UARTs, SPI, I2C, Ethernet etc.
• ADC/DAC devices and techniques
• Analogue design including op-amps, transistor-level design, control loops and and low noise techniques.
• High power techniques.
• Design proving, integration, and defect resolution
• Gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
• Able to work within cost and timescale constraints

Skills: (Recommended max 5 /statements)

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
• Experience of low-noise analogue techniques
• Experience of high power techniques (kW level)
• Experience of FPGA/CPLD development
• Business Expertise (Requirements of the position for knowledge and expertise about the business rather than the technical expertise)

Business Expertise (Requirements of the position for knowledge and expertise about the business rather than the technical expertise)

The role holder: Will have a good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of a design team plus an understanding of the work of the design team.

The role holder: Will have a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design.

The role holder: Will have an awareness of how cost and timescale constraints may impact business performance

Leadership (Requirements of the position for providing leadership and guidance to others)

The role holder: Is responsible for quality of own work and safety of self.

The role holder: May be required to mentor and coach team members according to seniority of appointment.

Problem Solving (Breadth of mental skills required in order to perform the position)

The role holder: Is required to make judgements based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations.

Must assess the viability and applicability of solutions, evaluates alternatives based on an understanding of common or previous solutions to problems and analysis of factual information.

Nature of Impact (Impact on business by detailing the overall responsibility associated with the job)

The role holder is responsible for the quality and timely delivery of own work. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.

Area of Impact (Business area impacted Delivery/Functional)

Performance of the team and/or solution is directly affected by the job, and will have an impact on other teams involved in the task or work.

Interpersonal Skills (type of people skills required to perform the job)

The role holder: Requires good communication and diplomacy skills.

Must understand detailed technical instructions and be able to communicate complex technical information to others