R & D Manager

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This role will be the lead for my client’s R&D team of 7 employees covering Electronic Engineering, Firmware design, CAD engineering, and software. As such, we require an experienced engineer capable of running simultaneous projects and coordinating cross-discipline collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established yet growing company with excellent prospects both during and after the pandemic. The role will be part of the management team involved in making strategic decisions.

The right candidate will have a range of the following skills and qualifications:

General:

• Strong communication and project management skills
• The ability to compile technical proposals, requirements, and specification documentation
• Experience working with internal and external stakeholders to gather and revise product requirements
• Provide team leadership and mentorship, offering advice and guidance to the R&D department to ensure timely project delivery
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Teams

Experience:

• Significant hands-on design experience plus a minimum of 5-10 years of substantial digital electronics embedded design & development experience
• We also consider candidates with less experience but a dynamic attitude towards work

Technical experience:

• Design and develop software for analogue & digital circuits using embedded programming skills such as C/C++, and FPGA experience
• Excellent digital design skills, including simulation, prototyping, and practical implementation
• Analogue and digital circuit design expertise
• PCB layout and schematic capture skills, with experience working with CAD tools
• Strong digital hardware knowledge – FPGAs/CPLDs, 8-32 bit Microcontrollers (e.g., ARM & PIC, DSP Processors)
• Fault finding at the component level on analogue, digital, and embedded electronic boards