Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer (Hybrid)

Leonardo; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to Recharge

Pension scheme 15%+

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

Online learning (Coursera/LinkedIn)

Refer a friend

Flexible benefits £500

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is recruiting Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineers to join our Edinburgh or Newcastle delivery teams. You’ll design cutting-edge high‑speed digital PCBs, lead hardware development across the full lifecycle, and translate system requirements into robust hardware.

This role requires a strong academic background in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or Physics, experience with FPGAs, microprocessors, and complex interconnects, plus a methodical, collaborative approach and

Qualifications

• Design cutting-edge high-speed digital PCBs, incorporating state-of-the-art FPGAs, microprocessors, and complex interconnects.
• Lead hardware development across the full lifecycle—from early requirements analysis and design to testing, integration, acceptance, and customer delivery.
• Produce clear, accurate technical documentation, maintaining configuration control and providing insight through plans and progress updates.
• Collaborate with engineers across disciplines as you solve real integration challenges within sophisticated systems.
• Translate system-level requirements into robust hardware designs, working with clarity and precision.
• Use your schematic capture expertise to bring designs to life.
• Design high-speed serial communication links, drawing on your understanding of relevant protocols and architectures.
• Integrate hardware, firmware, and software—bringing microprocessor-based systems onto bespoke hardware platforms.
• Take a methodical, process-driven approach to the entire design lifecycle.
• Debug, test, and verify your designs, supporting system commissioning and making sure everything works seamlessly.

Skills

High-speed digital design

PCB design

FPGA architectures

Microprocessors

Schematic capture

Systems integration

Debug and test

Technical documentation

Collaboration across disciplines

Education

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Physics

BSc

BEng

MSc

MEng

PhD

EngD

Job description

Leonardo UK is recruiting Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineers to join our Edinburgh or Newcastle delivery teams. You’ll design cutting-edge high‑speed digital PCBs, lead hardware development across the full lifecycle, and translate system requirements into robust hardware.

This role requires a strong academic background in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or Physics, experience with FPGAs, microprocessors, and complex interconnects, plus a methodical, collaborative approach and