Lead Electronics Engineer — Defense Hardware & Security

Ultra Maritime; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

25 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays)

Pension Contribution

4 x Life Assurance Cover

Flexible working hours (1pm Friday)

Flexible benefits (cycle to work, will

Security Clearance Allowance

Job summary

Ultra Intelligence & Communications is seeking a Principal Electronics Engineer to lead R&D in digital and analogue electronics, focusing on high-performance circuits and PCBs within a secure, defense-driven environment.

The role requires independent judgement, SC and possibly DV clearance, and on-site work in the UK. You will mentor junior staff and drive design reviews across multiple projects while ensuring quality, cost, and schedule adherence.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience of high-speed digital designs that include processors and programmable devices.
• Experience of analogue circuit design and switched-mode power supply design.
• Able to design reliable power supplies that meet requirements and analyse against all input and output conditions across temperature, and estimate performance accurately.
• Competent with schematic capture tools and understands how to constrain layout using rules, classes and groups.
• Must have developed large, complex designs requiring multi-layer PCBs (and PCB stack-up design).
• Appreciation of design and test for EMC and TEMPEST preferred.
• Having carried out PCB layouts using PADS and, or Altium would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Specify, design and verify digital and analogue circuits and printed circuit boards (PCBs) in order to deliver high quality electronics that meets the requirements in a timely manner and within budget.
• Perform design calculations and carry out simulations using industry standard tools, and prototype as required, in order to estimate performance, identify high-risk areas and ensure high quality designs that require minimal re-design.
• Develop and verify electronics according to Ultra’s hardware development process.
• Estimate time and effort required for the activities and deliver to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
• Provide technical direction and exert technical influence across multiple projects, such that the optimal approach, architecture and design are selected.
• Work with production test to ensure designs are suitable for volume production. Also support production to assist them with the rapid debugging and resolution of electronic hardware issues encountered in order to minimise production delays.
• Work constructively with other team members, actively contributing to design reviews, to ensure a collaborative working environment.
• Could be a team leader on a project if so desires and has the appropriate skills.
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual.

Skills

High-speed digital designs

Analogue circuit design

Power supply design

Schematic capture

PCB layout (multi-layer)

EMC / TEMPEST

Altium

PADS

Security clearance

Team leadership

Education

Electrical or Electronic Engineering degree

Tools

Altium

PADS

Schematic capture tools

Job description

Ultra Intelligence & Communications is seeking a Principal Electronics Engineer to lead R&D in digital and analogue electronics, focusing on high-performance circuits and PCBs within a secure, defense-driven environment.

The role requires independent judgement, SC and possibly DV clearance, and on-site work in the UK. You will mentor junior staff and drive design reviews across multiple projects while ensuring quality, cost, and schedule adherence.