Electronics Hardware Engineer

multimatic; Milton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Multimatic is seeking an experienced electronics engineer to lead hardware design for automotive-grade embedded systems. The role requires designing for manufacture, rigorous debugging and testing, and working to tight deadlines.

You will collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions and support engineers to meet commitments. Based in Cambridge, the candidate should have hands-on experience with automotive hardware interfaces and be comfortable working in a high-quality

Qualifications

• Degree or higher in electronics engineering or closely related discipline.
• Experience in electronic hardware design for manufacture, ideally in automotive environments.
• Ability to work to deadlines and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Architectural development of electronic systems to automotive processes and standards.
• Circuit design, analysis and documentation.
• Design debugging, verification and validation testing.
• Own designs and devise solutions to problems as they arise.
• Document designs for long term support and identify areas for improvement.

Skills

Embedded systems

Electronic hardware design

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in electronics engineering

Tools

Altium

SPICE

PCB layout tools

DMM/oscilloscope

Job description

We need someone who is experienced in electronic hardware design, with a good grounding in embedded systems. Someone who has previously designed products for manufacture, ideally in an automotive environment, and someone used to working to deadlines and communicating well. And we need someone who will embrace our culture - finding ways to say "yes", supporting and developing our engineers, meeting all commitments, being flexible, embracing challenges and ensuring we deliver excellent solutions to our customers.

Facility Address

Milton Hall
Ely Road
Milton
Cambridge

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Architectural development of electronic systems, to automotive process and standards.
• Circuit design, analysis and documentation.
• Design debugging, verification and validation testing.
• Ownership of designs, devising solutions and solving problems as they arise.
• Appropriate documentation of the design to allow long term support of the product
• Identify areas for improvement including tools, techniques and processes.

Experience - Highly Desirable

• Architectural development of electronic systems.
• Circuit design including:
• H-bridges, solenoid, motor and inductive load interfaces.
• High and low-side MOSFET switches.
• Current sensing and measurement.
• Common op-amp circuits (amplifiers, filters, etc.), comparators.
• Automotive microcontrollers with integrated peripheral functions.
• 'External-world' analogue and digital interfaces.
• Communications interfaces: SPI, I2C, CAN, LIN, and Ethernet.
• Power supplies: linear regulators and switched-mode.
• Design commission and debug.
• PCB design, layout and routing using third-party layout resources.
• Analogue circuit simulation for analysis and performance prediction.
• Document creation including specifications, design descriptions, design & test reports.
• Working in a high-quality environment using industry-standard processes both in cross-functional teams and stand-alone.

Experience - Desirable

• Design for automotive environments.
• Design of safety-related hardware and functionally safe hardware development.
• PCB design layout & routing using PCB tools.
• Design for reliability; derating of components.
• Reliability analysis, FMEA.
• Taking a design from architecture through to production.
• Design for manufacture.
• Design for test.
• Design for qualification; EMC, environmental.
• Product qualification; EMC and environmental testing.
• Writing simple hardware test software.
• Degree or higher qualification in electronics engineering or a closely related discipline.

Previous Engineering Tools & Lab Experience

• Schematic capture - Altium preferably.
• PCB layout viewers, ODB++ & gerber viewers.
• SPICE circuit simulators.
• Use of common lab bench equipment; scopes, signal generators, DMMs, etc.
• Soldering of through-hole and SMT components.

Multimatic is an equal opportunity employer.

To learn more about Multimatic, check out our youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOjJIh3t90

We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, recruitment-related accommodations for disabilities, are available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process for applicants with disabilities.