Senior Electronics Engineer

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions LTD; Sherburn in Elmet; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Electric car scheme

Cycle to work

Paid time off to volunteer

Commitment to ongoing development

Job summary

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions LTD is helping a client in County Durham hire a Senior Electronics Engineer. The role emphasizes genuine component-level circuit design, analogue, digital and mixed-signal work, and ownership from parts selection to a working board.

You’ll design, simulate and verify power supplies, amplifiers and interfaces, collaborate with software/firmware teams, and support product introduction with a proactive approach to obsolescence.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong track record in analogue and digital circuit design at component level.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB design tools (Altium preferred).
• Solid understanding of EMC/EMI in design and testing.
• Comfort in lab environments with standard test equipment.
• Experience with high-volume manufacture is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design analogue, digital and mixed-signal circuits at component level.
• Build microprocessor based systems around ADCs and DACs.
• Capture schematics and specify PCB requirements end-to-end.
• Integrate designs at system level with interfaces like USB, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN, SPI, I2C.
• Conduct thermal, tolerance and reliability analyses (MTBF).
• Write test specs and lead design reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with software/firmware teams during product introduction and manage obsolescence risk.

Skills

Component level analogue & digital设计

EMC/EMI understanding

Schematic capture/PCB design

Lab test equipment proficiency

High volume manufacture experience

Education

Degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Senior Electronics Engineer County Durham | Hybrid WFH £75,000 to £85,000 | Relocation Package

If you're the kind of electronics engineer who'd sooner start from a blank schematic and a stack of datasheets than bolt together somebody else's modules, I've a role here that ought to pique your interest.

A client of KO2's, a thriving and steadily expanding engineering business in County Durham, is looking to add a Senior Electronics Engineer to its design team. At a time when a good many companies are keeping their heads down and their chequebooks firmly shut, this one is doing quite the opposite: investing, growing headcount and taking on new work. They operate in one of the relatively few sectors currently enjoying real, sustained growth, and frankly that is a rarer commodity than it ought to be.

What this role really hinges upon

What this role really hinges upon is genuine, component level circuit design. Analogue, digital and mixed signal, done properly from first principles. You'll have designed the power supplies, the amplifiers, the filtering and the signal conditioning yourself, picked every part, simulated it, and seen it through to a board that works. If you're the person others come to when a circuit is misbehaving and nobody can work out why, you'll fit in reet well.

A flavour of the work

• Specifying, simulating and designing analogue, digital and mixed signal circuits at component level
• Building microprocessor based systems around ADCs, DACs and supporting logic
• Capturing schematics and setting out PCB requirements, from materials to layer stack
• Bringing designs up on the bench and integrating them at system level, working with interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN, SPI and I²C
• Getting to the bottom of hardware and communications faults, methodically and without fuss
• Carrying out thermal, tolerance and reliability analysis, MTBF included, so designs stand the test of time
• Writing test specifications and reports, and taking part in (and leading) design reviews
• Working hand in glove with software and firmware colleagues, supporting product introduction, and keeping a beady eye on obsolescence before it bites

What you'll need

• A degree in Electronic Engineering or a closely related field, or the equivalent hard won experience
• A strong track record of component level analogue and digital design
• Schematic capture and PCB design tool experience (Altium would be champion, but it's not a deal breaker)
• A sound understanding of EMC and EMI, both in design and in test
• Real comfort in the lab with oscilloscopes, logic analysers and the usual array of test kit
• Experience of high volume manufacture and surface mount processes would be a definite plus.

Why it's worth your while

Pay:

£75,000 to £85,000, which puts it comfortably in the upper echelons for electronics design in the North East.

Balance:

hybrid working on a 37.5 hour week, with 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays and the option to purchase additional leave.

Security:

a generous employer pension contribution, life cover and income protection.

A stake in it:

a share scheme, so you benefit directly from the growth you're helping to drive.

Perks:

• an electric car scheme
• cycle to work
• paid time off to volunteer
• and a real commitment to your ongoing development.

Moving:

relocation support is on hand if you're coming from further afield.