Senior Electronics Engineer

RTX Corporation; Hare Street; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.

6x Life Assurance with pension

25 days holiday

Discretionary company bonus

Flexible Benefits including HealthCash

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family friendly policies

Job summary

RTX Corporation is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to lead hardware design across defence-related projects. The role focuses on architecture, schematics, PCB support, and integration of electronic subsystems with embedded, RF, and mechanical teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in hardware design, familiarity with Xilinx devices and DO254 standards, and the ability to deliver prototypes through to production while ensuring robust verification and documentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hardware design experience.
• SC security clearance or eligible.
• Experience with DO254 and airborne/radar/defence standards.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces (LVDS/JESD).
• Ability to present technical information clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Develop requirements to ensure compliance to relevant standards.
• Collaborate with system engineers on hardware architectures and own the design.
• Create schematics, support PCB design, select components, perform simulations and verification.
• Work with embedded systems, software, RF and mechanical engineers.
• Produce design documentation and conduct technical reviews.
• Act as focal point for integration of hardware into products.

Skills

Embedded systems

Microprocessor systems

ADC/DAC

Memory devices

FPGAs/SoC

Design for manufacture

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Ethernet/SPI/I2C/UART

Analytical/problem-solving

Tools

Mentor Xpedition

SPICE

MATLAB/Simulink

Simscape

Xilinx chip family

Job description

• The successful applicant will support the APNT Team across various programmes (both internally and Customer funded) and will be involved in the following main duties:
• Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards
• Work alongside our system engineers on architectures of electronic subsystems and own the design
• Schematic creation, PCB design support, component selection, Perform circuit simulation, evaluation and verification
• Work alongside embedded Systems, Software, RF and mechanical engineers
• Generate supporting design documentation and perform regular technical reviews.
• The Senior Electronics Engineer (ideally with 8+ years of relevant experience in designing hardware) will be able to make their mark on a broad and varied range of product designs and will be expected to assist in the integration of these designs into products, being the focal point for the complete system.
• Experience with embedded digital electronics, microprocessor systems
• Experience of working with ADC/DAC
• Experience of working with memory devices such as SRAM, Flash
• Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies.
• Experience of creating prototypes and turning them into a production hardware
• Experience of supporting PCB designs in conformance with defence engineering standards/airborne standards
• Experience with High-Speed Interfaces and signal technologies such as LVDS, JESD
• Signal and power integrity analysis
• Working knowledge of Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, RS422
• Experience in designing for manufacture
• Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to others
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills
• An openness to learn and try new techniques
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment - working independently or with others to overcome obstacles
• Capable of analysing and reporting on technical data
• Eligible or holder of current SC security clearance
• Mentor less experience engineers within the team
• Experience of working with the Xilinx chip family
• Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development life cycle
• Experience using the Mentor Xpedition PCB design tool and SPICE
• Experience of circuit simulation tools such as Simscape and creating spice models
• Experience of creating design models in MATLAB/Simulink
• Experience creating DO254 compliant electronic systems
• APNT systems domain knowledge and/or experience in a similar field
• Understanding of environmental requirements (shock, vibration, EMC, etc.), experience applying these requirements to a design and experience testing for these requirements
• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.