Senior Electronics Engineer — Radar Hardware (Hybrid)

Leonardo; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Pension up to 15% employer contributed

Mental health support

Flexible benefits up to £500

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to contribute to high-performance hardware for Surveillance RADAR systems. You will participate in the full engineering lifecycle from requirement definition to verification and integration, designing PCB-level electronics and supporting integration with the wider project team.

The role requires hands-on experience in hardware, firmware and software integration for microprocessor-based designs, along with robust knowledge of high-speed

Qualifications

• Higher education approved STEM qualification at degree level.
• Circuit design (schematic capture) layout and simulation practitioner experience.
• Mixed signal knowledge using ADC/DAC, FPGA, SoC based design for high performance signal processing, communications and control.
• Integrating in-house designs with COTS modules (power supplies, single board computers, RF interfaces)
• Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to Hardware designs
• Good domain knowledge of high-speed serial communication links and knowledge of associated protocols and architectures, Power Supply Design and Analogue Design
• Hands on experience of Hardware, Firmware & Software Integration of Micro Processor Based designs onto hardware platforms is essential
• Debugging, testing and verification of new designs and supporting their commissioning and integration into the target system
• Ability to liaise with suppliers of key components and assemblies

Responsibilities

• Design product within the Electronics Hardware discipline, to ensure successful delivery / transfer to production.
• Ensure engineering design is best practice by following Company and Engineering life cycle processes.
• Design engineering solutions taking into account all requirements such as product quality, safety, reliability and testability
• Create work package plans, advising on optimum team size/capability mix and reporting against the teams work programmes including analysis of risk
• Resolve routine and complex technical and delivery issues within engineering, related to defined work package assignments, and in accordance with local team engineering plans and processes.
• Communicate non-routine technical and delivery issues to by local engineering team or direct line management with resolution proposals.
• Support a culture of innovation within the local team, engineering discipline, and wider business that creates solutions to project and business problems.
• Promote a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation
• Contribute to local team and Engineering Unit decision making
• Participate in continuous improvement activities to develop skills and competencies within the individual's own engineering discipline and wider project.
• May supervise an Engineer or Senior Engineer
• Participate in self-development activities to improve Skills & Competencies in the specific engineering discipline and wider project.

Skills

Circuit design

Mixed-signal design

FPGA/SoC design

High-speed serial links

HW/FW integration

Debugging & verification

Power supply design

Schematic capture

Education

Bachelor's degree in a STEM field

Tools

EDA tools (Cadence)

PCB layout tools

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to contribute to high-performance hardware for Surveillance RADAR systems. You will participate in the full engineering lifecycle from requirement definition to verification and integration, designing PCB-level electronics and supporting integration with the wider project team.

The role requires hands-on experience in hardware, firmware and software integration for microprocessor-based designs, along with robust knowledge of high-speed