Electronics Design Engineer

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Southsea; Hybrid; GBP 145,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

JAM Recruitment Ltd is seeking an Electronics Design Engineer for a Broad Oak-based, hybrid role on a 12-month contract. The position offers £81.90 per hour Umbrella inside IR35, with 3-4 days on site per week.

You will develop component-level designs for volume production, covering digital interfaces, ADC/DAC and analogue design, FPGA/CPLD, and high-power techniques, while meeting cost and timescale constraints for a leading defence organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in electronic design for volume production.
• Experience in defence or high-safety environment is preferred.
• Ability to work within cost and timescales constraints.

Responsibilities

• Generate component level electronic designs for volume production.
• Digital design including processor interfacing and communication protocols.
• ADC/DAC and analogue design work.
• High power techniques and safe operation.
• Design proving, integration, and defect resolution.
• Gather evidence for acceptance, fitness for purpose, safety and compliance.

Skills

Electronic design

Digital design

ADC/DAC design

Analogue design

High power techniques

FPGA/CPLD development

Leadership

Problem solving

Mentor/coach

Defence experience

Job description

Electronics Design Engineer

Broad Oak based (Hybrid Working)

£81.90 per hour Umbrella inside IR35

12 Month Contract

Currently recruiting for a Electronics Design Engineer to work within one of the Uks leading defence organisations in Broad Oak. Hybrid working, 3-4 days per week on site.

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:

• 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)
• 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.
• Will have a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design
• 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.
• 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.