Senior Electronics Engineer, Lab Instrumentation & FPGA

PerkinElmer; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Well-equipped bench

Shaping lab setup

Cross-discipline teams

Job summary

PerkinElmer UK seeks a hands-on senior electronics designer to lead subsystems for next-generation material-characterisation instruments. You will own requirements through verified hardware including low-noise front-ends, power, and MCU/FPGA boards, coordinating cables, actuators and motors.

You will partner with optics, mechanics, firmware and scientists to prove designs, perform DFMEA, verification, and rapid bench prototyping, while sustaining released products and addressing obsolescence.

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical/electronic engineering or closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of design engineering in instrumentation or test & measurement products.
• Mixed-signal design in a low-noise environment.
• Digital hardware: MCU-based control boards and comms interfaces.
• High-speed multilayer (8+ layer) digital design; FPGA/SoC on Xilinx Zynq.
• Schematic and PCB design in Altium 365 to IPC standards; DFM/assembly considerations.
• Hands-on PCBA bring-up and bench testing; debugging on your own initiative.
• EMC and product safety to IEC 61326-1 and IEC 61010-1; compliance testing.
• Structured product-design approach: requirements, reviews, DFMEA, verification plans.

Responsibilities

• Design and verify circuits for new instrument: low-noise analog front-ends and power boards.
• Own high-speed digital/FPGA design and PCB layout to IPC standards.
• Lead electrical architecture from concept through prototype, verification and release.
• Run hardware development process: requirements, design reviews, DFMEA, verification reports.
• Prototype rapidly with breadboards/proto boards, validate concepts.
• Bring up, debug and validate boards with firmware team; hands-on testing.
• Manage electrical BOM, datasheets, safety/EMC considerations; support DFM/DFA.
• Sustain released products: obsolescence and field issues; root cause analysis.
• Coordinate cross-functional issue resolution with optics, mechanics, firmware, software.

Skills

Mixed-signal design

Low-noise design

FPGA/SoC design

Altium PCB design

Schematic capture

DFMEA & verification

EMC safety

DFM for manufacture

VHDL/Verilog

Education

Electrical/ electronic engineering degree

Tools

Altium 365

ViewMate

Valor NPI

Git/Jira/Confluence

Job description

PerkinElmer UK seeks a hands-on senior electronics designer to lead subsystems for next-generation material-characterisation instruments. You will own requirements through verified hardware including low-noise front-ends, power, and MCU/FPGA boards, coordinating cables, actuators and motors.

You will partner with optics, mechanics, firmware and scientists to prove designs, perform DFMEA, verification, and rapid bench prototyping, while sustaining released products and addressing obsolescence.