Principal Electronics Engineer

IC Resources; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IC Resources is seeking a senior electronics lead to own control electronics for advanced antenna products. You will drive hardware from requirements through design, bring-up and verification to release, coordinating with antenna, mechanical, software and systems teams.

You will mentor engineers and take robust analogue and digital hardware to production with a focus on EMC and reliability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in analogue, digital and mixed-signal hardware design.
• Hands-on FPGA and microcontroller work.
• PCB design for high-layer-count boards with signal integrity considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design analogue, digital and mixed-signal hardware for antenna products
• Build architectures for antenna control, sensing and calibration
• Develop drive electronics for piezoelectric and stepper-motor positioning systems
• Design signal conditioning, power regulation and interfaces
• Own complex multilayer PCBs from schematic to production, working with layout, fab and assembly partners
• Bring up, debug and characterise boards in the lab, then feed what you learn back into the design
• Support EMC, environmental and qualification testing
• Mentor junior engineers as the team grows, and help shape how we do electronics here
• A track record of taking hardware from concept through PCB design, prototype, integration and verification
• Fluency in Altium, OrCAD, Cadence or similar

Skills

Analogue design

Digital design

Mixed-signal design

PCB design

FPGA

MCU

EMC testing

Test & debug

Mentoring

Altium/OrCAD/Cadence

Tools

Altium

OrCAD

Cadence

Job description

A deeptech company is seeking a senior electronics lead to own control electronics for its advanced antenna products. You will drive hardware from requirements through design, bring-up and verification to release, coordinating with antenna, mechanical, software and systems teams.

You will mentor engineers, design robust analogue and digital hardware, and take advanced PCB layouts to production with a focus on EMC and reliability.

About the company

We are building breakthrough antenna technology for the next generation of communications and radar systems. Our proprietary approach delivers lighter, lower-power and more scalable performance across a wide range of frequency bands.

The role

Our antenna products need electronics that move, sense and control with precision, and we need someone to own them. You’ll take our control electronics from requirements through design, bring-up and verification to product release. That covers the hardware, actuator drive, sensing and power that make our technology work. It’s a senior individual contributor role: you’ll be the technical lead for electronics, hands‑on at the bench, and working closely with antenna, mechanical, software and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design analogue, digital and mixed-signal hardware for antenna products
• Build architectures for antenna control, sensing and calibration
• Develop drive electronics for piezoelectric and stepper-motor positioning systems
• Design signal conditioning, power regulation and interfaces
• Own complex multilayer PCBs from schematic to production, working with layout, fab and assembly partners
• Bring up, debug and characterise boards in the lab, then feed what you learn back into the design
• Support EMC, environmental and qualification testing
• Mentor junior engineers as the team grows, and help shape how we do electronics here
• Around 5-10 years developing electronic hardware products
• A track record of taking hardware from concept through PCB design, prototype, integration and verification
• Solid analogue, digital and mixed-signal design experience
• Embedded hardware experience with microcontrollers and FPGAs, including hands‑on FPGA design and implementation
• Complex multilayer PCB design: controlled impedance, grounding, signal and power integrity
• Power supply and distribution design for embedded systems
• Confident bring-up, debugging and lab work with scopes, logic analysers and spectrum analysers
• Fluency in Altium, OrCAD, Cadence or similar