Lead Hardware Engineer – Defence Electronics (Hybrid)

Proman; Luton; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Proman is recruiting for a Lead Hardware Engineer in Luton on a 12-month contract. The role is on-site four days a week with a strong emphasis on digital and mixed-signal hardware for defence applications.

You will work with systems, firmware, software and RF teams to deliver robust hardware solutions, from requirements to integration and customer acceptance, across mission-critical programmes.

Qualifications

• Strong background in FPGA and SoC-based hardware architectures.
• Experience designing complex multilayer PCB assemblies.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial interfaces, processors and memory subsystems.
• Experience with tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, Xpedition or equivalent.
• Practical hardware debugging and fault-finding with standard test equipment.
• Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity and timing considerations.
• Experience integrating hardware, firmware and software within embedded systems.
• Ability to translate system requirements into effective hardware solutions.
• Experience supporting verification, validation and qualification activities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced digital and mixed-signal hardware.
• Define hardware architectures for FPGA, SoC and processor-based systems.
• Create schematics and support PCB layout activities for high-speed designs.
• Develop and verify interfaces including DDR memory, PCIe and Ethernet.
• Integrate hardware, firmware and software into complete system solutions.
• Perform simulation, verification and validation activities.
• Support board-level bring-up, debugging and fault investigation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across the product lifecycle.
• Support environmental, EMC and qualification testing.
• Produce technical documentation and engineering evidence to support programme delivery.
• Support customer demonstrations, trials and acceptance activities.

Skills

FPGA architectures

SoC hardware

High-speed digital design

Hardware debugging

Signal integrity

Systems integration

Tools

Altium Designer

OrCAD

Xpedition

Job description

Proman is recruiting for a Lead Hardware Engineer in Luton on a 12-month contract. The role is on-site four days a week with a strong emphasis on digital and mixed-signal hardware for defence applications.

You will work with systems, firmware, software and RF teams to deliver robust hardware solutions, from requirements to integration and customer acceptance, across mission-critical programmes.