Senior Electronics Design Engineer

GTS Group Ltd; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GTS Group Ltd is seeking a Senior / Principal Electronics Design Engineer to own projects end-to-end, not just the schematic. You will shape client requirements, design your portion, and lead the rest of the team to land the project on time.

This role involves hands-on hardware design, bring-up, testing and fault finding, with responsibility for scope, risk and client expectations across sectors including Automotive, Defence & Aerospace, Medical and Space.

Qualifications

• Extensive electronics hardware design experience, concept to production.
• Track record of owning projects, end-to-end.
• Ability to direct other engineers' work, formally or otherwise.
• Mixed analogue/digital design with microcontrollers.

Responsibilities

• Owning design projects end to end - enquiry through to production handover
• Working directly with clients to turn vague requirements into a clear spec
• Breaking down the work, estimating effort, pulling in the right resource
• Directing electronics and PCB layout engineers on your projects
• Hands‑on hardware design, bring‑up, test and fault finding
• Managing scope, risk and client expectations like a grown‑up

Skills

Electronics hardware design

Project ownership

Mixed analogue/digital design

Microcontrollers

Team leadership

Tools

Altium

Cadence schematic capture

Job description

Senior / Principal Electronics Design Engineer - Own the Project, Not Just the Circuit

A well-established UK electronics design house, part of a larger European manufacturing group, is expanding its engineering team. The work spans Automotive, Defence & Aerospace, Medical, Space and more, and no two projects look the same.

This one's for an engineer who wants the whole project, not just the schematic. You'll take a client's requirement, shape it, design a chunk of it yourself, and direct the rest of the team so it lands on time.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning design projects end to end - enquiry through to production handover
• Working directly with clients to turn vague requirements into a clear spec
• Breaking down the work, estimating effort, pulling in the right resource
• Directing electronics and PCB layout engineers on your projects
• Hands‑on hardware design, bring‑up, test and fault finding
• Managing scope, risk and client expectations like a grown‑up

What you'll bring:

• Extensive electronics hardware design experience, concept to production
• Track record of owning projects, not just contributing to them
• Confidence directing other engineers' work, formally or otherwise
• Mixed analogue/digital design with microcontrollers
• Altium and/or Cadence schematic capture
• Eligibility for UK Security Clearance (SC)

Based within reach of Bedfordshire - hybrid( large amount of remote working!). Unfortunately due to the nature of the work they are unable to offer sponsorship or consider those on a visa currently.

Sound like your kind of ownership?