Senior Electronics Engineer

Cirrus Selection; Ampthill; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Cirrus Selection is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer based in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. You will own mixed electrical and electronic designs from concept through to completion, using a structured phase-gate process and driving the design reviews and documentation.

Responsibilities include analogue, digital, microprocessor and FPGA design, power electronics, and EMC considerations at product and PCB levels. Proficiency with Altium and Windchill, plus JTAG debugging, is expected.

Qualifications

• Formal electronics qualification (HNC/HND or BEng).
• Hardware design for harsh environments and reliability.
• Experience with phase-gate process and design reviews.
• Ability to define requirements and drive ECAD/PLM documentation.

Responsibilities

• Take mixed electrical and electronic designs from concept to completion.
• Own the design process and establish procedures and tests.
• Demonstrate schematic capture and PCB layout with traceability.

Skills

FPGA design

Analogue & digital

Derating analysis

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Education

HNC/HND or BEng

Tools

Altium

Windchill

JTAG debugging

Job description

Senior Electronics Engineer

Based in Ampthill, Bedfordshire

Salary from £43,500 to £54,500 DOE + Benefits

If your idea of a good day is chasing down a marginal derating issue on an FPGA-based PCB destined for a genuinely harsh environment, this one is worth a proper look.

You will take mixed electrical and electronic designs from concept through to completion, working a structured phase-gate process rather than firefighting from spec to spec. Real ownership here, defining the processes and procedures that shape how electrical and electronic hardware gets designed and built, reviewing supplier capability, and shaping the functional and physical requirements that hold an integrated design architecture together.

Day-to-day, you are in the detail. Analogue, digital, microprocessor and FPGA design. Power electronics. Circuit simulation, analysis, test and evaluation. Schematic capture and PCB layout, with the documentation trail, trade studies, compliance evidence and test reports, to back it all up.

This is defence and aerospace grade engineering, so Def-Stan and Mil standards awareness is beneficial, as does a solid handle on EMC at both product and PCB level.

Tools-wise, you will be at home in Altium for schematic capture and PCB layout, comfortable debugging over JTAG, and used to logging your work in Windchill or an equivalent PLM system.

Please note, this role requires security clearance, so you will need to be a sole UK national to be considered.

What you will need:

• A formal electronics qualification, HNC, HND or BEng


• Hardware design and electrical product development experience for harsh environments


• Confidence analysing derating, stress and tolerance


• Proven schematic capture and PCB layout experience, Altium preferred, with IPC awareness


• EMC awareness at product and PCB level


• Eligibility for UK security clearance, sole UK nationality required


• Familiarity with Def-Stan or Mil standards, and safety and quality processes


• Comfortable supporting or managing aspects of assembly, integration and test


• Lab test equipment experience, plus JTAG design and debug


• Windchill or similar PLM tool experience

You will be based on-site in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, reporting to the Design Team Lead, working alongside a team that cares about getting the engineering right, not just getting it out the door.