Electronics Engineer

Sagentia Defence; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Sagentia Defence in Cambridge seeks an Electronics Engineer to design analogue and digital circuits and drive hardware development across product lifecycles. You will work in multi-disciplinary teams with software, mechanical and manufacturing engineers.

Based in our Cambridge offices with occasional client site travel in Europe or USA, you will interact with clients to define requirements, implement, test and hand over finished designs. A 1st/2:1 degree in electronics or engineering is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience across full product development lifecycle for electronics.
• Hands-on in analogue and digital circuit design.
• Willingness to learn new electronic technologies.
• Excellent communication in a fast-paced team.

Responsibilities

• Design high-quality analogue and digital circuits for client projects.
• Contribute to hardware development within multidisciplinary teams.
• Interact with clients to plan projects and capture design requirements.
• Drive integration, issue resolution and verification at hardware level.

Skills

Analogue & digital design

Electronics hardware development

Embedded C/C++

Team communication

Education

Electronics/Engineering degree (2:1)

Tools

FPGA (VHDL/Verilog)

Job description

Electronics Engineer

Department: Electronics & Systems

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Cambridge

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 best-in-class technology solutions for our clients; with the added satisfaction of seeing your finished designs launched on the market.

Key Responsibilities

• Design high-quality analogue and digital circuits for client projects at all stages within the product development lifecycle, from concept feasibility through to manufacture.
• Contribute to the electronics hardware development within multidisciplinary projects; understand how electronic requirements are derived from the system architecture, in collaboration with software, mechanical and manufacturing engineers.
• Interact with our clients to plan projects, identify and formalise design requirements, implement, test, and ultimately hand over finished designs.
• Drive integration, issue resolution and verification activities at hardware and subsystem level.

A day in the life

You will be based at our Sagentia Innovation offices in Harston, Cambridge with opportunities for short travel to client sites in Europe or USA. You will enjoy a fast-paced environment, working within a team who solve a variety of challenges from different industries, and you will be expected to stretch yourself and demonstrate ambition, 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 an Electronics Engineer, you will have the opportunity to use and improve your electronics engineering competencies and develop leadership skills on projects across these sectors.

Projects can range in length from a few months to several years and typically will use a talented and collaborative team to provide best practice product development expertise in electronics, mechanical and software design.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• A proven track record of the full product development lifecycle for electronics design.
• 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.
• First or 2:1 degree, or postgraduate qualification in electronics, engineering, or a related subject.

Additional knowledge and skills beneficial to this role

• FPGA hardware design experience including VHDL / Verilog programming.
• Simulation of designs using Spice and/or RF simulators.
• Experience in motion control (actuators and sensors) systems would be advantageous.
• RF design, test and compliance to 6GHz would be advantageous.
• Embedded C/C++ software design experience.

Benefits

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