Hardware Development Engineer (UK Citizenship required)

Viasat; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will manage all aspects of hardware design and development, ensuring high speed digital solutions meet customer requirements. Responsibilities include hardware ownership, design specifications, and production support. Candidates must have a degree in Electronic Engineering or a related field, with a proven track record in digital circuit development and strong troubleshooting skills. UK security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Full development life-cycle experience.
• Proven track record of digital circuit development.
• Excellent understanding of high speed digital design.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of hardware throughout its development.
• Design and specify high speed digital boards.
• Support manufacturing and resolve production issues.

Skills

Electronic design fundamentals

High speed digital design

Signal integrity

Hardware testing

Troubleshooting

Using oscilloscopes

Using logic analysers

Using power supplies

Using multimeters

Cadence or Mentor Tools

Education

Degree in Electronic Engineering or similar discipline

Job description

About us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you’ll do

Viasat UK are looking to recruit an experienced Hardware Engineer who can operate in a fast-paced environment as part of a multi-disciplined team across all aspects of standard and bespoke secure digital design solutions. As a Hardware Engineer on our team, you will be involved in all aspects of a challenging and rewarding engineering role covering design, test, production support and customer unit evaluation and commissioning.

The day-to-day

• Ownership of the design and delivery of hardware throughout the development lifecycle
• Specification and design of high speed digital boards for products and test equipment
• Design, build and test of development and production test equipment
• Schematic capture and support of pcb layout
• Co‑ordinate design with Mechanical, Software and System engineers
• Hardware design proving testing
• Support to software and system testing
• Production of development and production test processes and procedures.
• Support to manufacturing, resolving test and production issues, training production staff
• Resolution of design, obsolescence and production issues on existing products
• Integration of Data At Rest products into customer platforms

In addition, from time to time, you may be asked to undertake other tasks and responsibilities not covered above in order to achieve project or business objectives.

What you’ll need

• Full development life‑cycle experience
• Excellent understanding of electronic design fundamentals, high speed digital design and signal integrity
• Proven track record of digital circuit development
• Adept with hardware testing and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, power supplies and multimeters.
• Proficient with industry standard CAD toolsets (e.g. Cadence or Mentor Schematic & Layout Tools)
• Degree in Electronic Engineering or similar discipline
• Must have, or be capable of obtaining, UK security clearance

What will help you on the job

• Experience supporting production
• Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacture (DFM) methodologies and techniques
• Embedded firmware design (C/C++/assembler/Python).
• Software design for test and test equipment development
• Writing test specifications and carrying out HW and system testing

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on‑line application, please click here.