Hardware Staff Engineer

Jobtailor; East Kilbride; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior embedded hardware leader to design and develop monitoring, protection, recording, and industrial instrumentation products. You will drive hardware decisions and mentor engineering teams across multiple projects.

You will translate system requirements into robust hardware designs, ensure performance, reliability, and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with firmware, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• Proven experience delivering embedded hardware from concept to production and lifecycle support.
• Experience in mixed-signal, analogue, digital and embedded systems design.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, EMC, thermal management and reliability.
• Experience with embedded processors, data acquisition, sensing and industrial networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of embedded hardware for monitoring, protection, recording, and instrumentation products.
• Translate requirements into robust hardware designs meeting performance, reliability, and cost goals.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
• Drive investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex issues.
• Lead design reviews, verification, qualification, and compliance testing.

Skills

Embedded Electronic Hardware Developm

Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

Regulatory Compliance Testing

Technical Leadership

Product Verification and Validation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering

Tools

ARM-Based Systems

Linux-Based Platforms

FPGA Solutions

Simulation Tools

Test Automation Tools

Job description

• Lead the design and development of embedded electronic hardware for monitoring, protection, recording, and industrial instrumentation products.
• Translate system and product requirements into robust hardware designs meeting performance, reliability, regulatory, manufacturing, and cost objectives.
• Design, analyse, and review analogue, mixed-signal, digital, power, and communications circuitry for mission-critical industrial applications.
• Collaborate with Architects, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Test teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
• Drive technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex design, manufacturing, qualification, and field issues.
• Perform technical trade-off analysis involving performance, accuracy, reliability, maintainability, manufacturability, lifecycle cost, and customer requirements.
• Lead schematic design, component selection, circuit simulation, design verification, laboratory evaluation, and PCB design reviews.
• Support architecture implementation and system-level design decisions.
• Lead and contribute to technical design reviews, engineering governance activities, and development best practices.
• Define and execute hardware verification, validation, qualification, and compliance testing.
• Support New Product Introduction, sustaining engineering, product enhancements, value engineering, and component obsolescence management.
• Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and provide leadership during complex technical challenges.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and product development activities.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and innovation initiatives.
• Champion product quality, reliability, manufacturability, maintainability, and customer value throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing embedded electronic hardware products, including significant experience delivering complex designs from concept through production and lifecycle support.
• Proven experience designing mixed-signal, analogue, digital, and embedded electronic systems.
• Strong understanding of electronic design fundamentals, including signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal management, reliability, and industrial product design.
• Experience developing hardware platforms incorporating embedded processors, communication interfaces, data acquisition systems, sensing technologies, and industrial networking.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations and make sound engineering decisions within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supporting product verification, validation, regulatory compliance, and production release processes.
• Strong communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers without direct line management responsibility.
• Preferred: Experience designing ARM-based embedded systems, Linux-based platforms, real-time systems, and FPGA-based solutions.
• Preferred: Experience with power system monitoring, protection, fault recording, power quality, condition monitoring, or substation automation products.
• Preferred: Knowledge of IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, and other industrial communication protocols.
• Preferred: Experience with precision timing technologies including GPS, GNSS, IRIG-B, IEEE 1588 PTP, and NTP.
• Preferred: Experience designing precision sensing, signal conditioning, and measurement systems.
• Preferred: Familiarity with cybersecurity principles applicable to embedded products and critical infrastructure environments.
• Preferred: Experience with EMC compliance, electrical safety standards, environmental qualification, CE, UL, IEC, and IEEE requirements.
• Preferred: Understanding of Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), Design for Serviceability (DFS), and reliability engineering principles.
• Preferred: Experience supporting supply chain activities including component lifecycle management, alternative component qualification, and obsolescence mitigation.
• Preferred: Familiarity with simulation, modelling, test automation, and hardware validation methodologies.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and developing embedded electronic hardware, with a strong focus on mixed-signal, analogue, and digital systems. Proven ability to lead technical investigations, mentor engineers, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards throughout the product lifecycle.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Embedded Electronic Hardware Development
• Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
• Regulatory Compliance Testing
• Technical Leadership
• Product Verification and Validation

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Analogue Circuit Design
• Digital Circuit Design
• Power System Design
• Signal Integrity Analysis
• Circuit Simulation
• PCB Design
• Embedded System Development
• Data Acquisition Systems
• Communication Interfaces
• Reliability Engineering

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Technical Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Mentoring
• Communication

Industry Keywords

• IEC 61850
• DNP3
• Modbus
• EMC Compliance
• Electrical Safety Standards
• Design for Manufacture
• Design for Test
• Design for Serviceability
• GPS Technologies
• NTP

Tools & Technologies

• ARM-Based Systems
• Linux-Based Platforms
• FPGA Solutions
• Simulation Tools
• Test Automation Tools