Experienced Electronics Engineer - Livingston, Scotland

Enigma People; Livingston; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Enigma People Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Electronics Engineer to develop innovative electronic systems and lead hands-on design across diverse markets ranging from Smart Metering to Life Sciences. You will interact with customers as the technical contact and drive projects from concept to prototype in a fast-paced consultancy.

The role emphasizes hands-on hardware development, documentation, and collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team in a proven design services environment.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience in developing electronic systems.
• Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB design, and simulation.
• Strong digital and analogue system design skills.
• Experience with microcontroller-based designs.
• Ability to interpret datasheets and design specifications.
• Excellent communication, including customer-facing reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative electronic products for client portfolios across multiple markets.
• Be the technical point of contact with customers on projects.
• Design, test and iterate electronics modules from concept to prototypes and production.

Skills

Schematic capture

PCB design

Simulation

Digital system design

Analog system design

MCU design

Customer-facing communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering

Tools

Altium

RS232

USB

SPI

I2C

CAN

Ethernet

Job description

Enigma People Solutions is recruiting highly experienced electronics engineer to bring impactful hands on experience customer facing consultancy skills across a range of product areas to work in a highly reputable design services consultancy.

Job Description

This role is for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Electronics Engineer to develop innovative products for our client’s customers, in markets ranging from Smart Metering, Oil & Gas, to Life Sciences and Medical. This is a high-profile opportunity for to demonstrate your talent in a fast-paced technical environment.

Our client delivers electronic design solutions, including proof-of-concept to prototype to full production. Working in design services the role sits as the technical point of contact with customers and involves a broad range of technically demanding projects with the opportunity to remain hands on developing ideas into tangible products in short timescales.

Essential Technical skills

• Significant demonstrable commercial experience of developing electronic systems
• Schematic capture, PCB design, simulation
• Digital and analogue system design
• Microcontroller system design
• Flexibility to interpret a variety of datasheets, protocol documents, design specifications

Criteria

• Enjoy problem solving and working in a fast-paced, team-based technical environment
• Possess strong communication skills; both internal and customer facing
• Investigate, develop and utilise new technologies, components and techniques, processes and tools
• Be comfortable creating customer-ready documentation and reports
• Regularly use your analogue and digital electronics skills to design, build and test complex electronics modules

The following skills are an advantage

• Altium schematic capture and PCB layout
• Design experience with system interconnects RS232, USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet etc.
• Power supply design
• High speed digital design
• Wireless modules/RF experience (e.g. Wifi, BLE/Bluetooth, RFID)
• Design experience with FPGAs, CPLDs and DSPs
• Verification of prototypes and transfer to manufacture
• EMC testing, failure analysis
• Experience of highly regulated development processes, e.g. medical devices, ATEX

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering or related subject.