Hardware Design Engineer

SRT Marine Systems plc; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent salary and package

Private health care

Career Development opportunities

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc in Cardiff is seeking a dynamic and ambitious Hardware Design Engineer responsible for the overall architectural and technical design of Maritime Domain Awareness systems. This role involves ensuring system resilience and reliability, leading technical integration, and collaborating with various teams.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in designing and managing mission-critical systems, with a focus on network architecture. The position offers an excellent salary and private health care.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of integrated multi-site systems.
• Extensive experience with mission-critical systems in challenging environments.
• Strong background in network engineering and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure systems are rugged and resilient.
• Review equipment specifications for suitability.
• Lead technical integration efforts across diverse systems.

Skills

Integrated multi-site systems

Resilient mission-critical electronic systems

System-of-systems integration

Network engineering

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi‑national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base.

The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies “MDA”, products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

SRT is an exciting company where high‑quality results are rewarded. We are ambitious and constantly seek to innovate in order to deliver better products and services to our customers. We strive to make SRT a rewarding and challenging place to work, where talented, hard‑working individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact across the marine industry.

We are seeking a dynamic and ambitious Hardware Design Engineer. You will be responsible for providing overall architectural and technical design authority for our Maritime Domain Awareness “MDA” deployment in the field. This role encompasses oversight of network connectivity, environmental ruggedisation, power supply, and ancillary support systems across all our Global projects.

*Please note – the role of Hardware Design Engineer requires international travel in support of our customer projects (sometimes with short notice).

Key Responsibilities - Hardware Design Engineer (not exhaustive):

• Ensure that our systems are rugged and resilient and continue to provide reliable service even when faced with natural and man‑made disasters.
• Review the specifications of equipment to ensure it is suitable, review the build specifications of system modules to ensure they are rugged and independent.
• Review supporting system connectivity and power architectures to ensure multiple backup and resilience.
• Lead technical integration efforts across platforms, sensors, data links, applications, networks, and command‑and‑control systems overseeing the integration across partners and stakeholders.
• Work closely with our system development, product management and project engineering teams to specify the network and physical system architecture of the systems and equipment modules that we are deploying worldwide.

Requirements - Hardware Design Engineer (not exhaustive):

• A deep understanding of integrated multi‑site systems and creation and implementation of resilient mission‑critical electronic and communication systems.
• Specify individual equipment components, module build standards that ensure resilience and review and create resilient system designs (connectivity & power).
• Extensive experience of designing, deploying and managing such mission‑critical systems in challenging environments, with such experience likely gained in the military, critical civil facilities, or oil and gas sectors.
• Demonstrated experience leading system‑of‑systems integration across platforms, sensors, networks, and mission systems.
• Hands on position that will suit an experienced, talented, pro‑active and ambitious network engineering professional seeking an exciting and varied technical role that will make a difference to our customers.

Benefits Package - Hardware Design Engineer

• Excellent salary and package
• Private health care
• Career Development opportunities

SRT Marine Systems plc are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.