Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private Medical

Dental

Cycle to work

On-site catering

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Electronics Engineer to turn concepts into deployable hardware, covering requirements, circuit design, prototyping, test and qualification for avionics and electronic subsystems.

You’ll work with software, FPGA and mechanical teams, lead hardware bring‑up and production qualification, and require a degree in Electronics Engineering with 5+ years’ experience and hands‑on PCB design using Altium, KiCad or Cadence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in electronics development, ideally in high reliability or safety-critical applications.
• Degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong schematic design and circuit analysis skills across high speed digital, mixed signal and power electronics.
• Hands-on PCB design experience with CAD tools (Altium, KiCad, Cadence).
• Experience with embedded hardware, microcontrollers, and digital interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, LVDS).
• Experience with lab test equipment and EMC/EMI design principles.

Responsibilities

• Translate system requirements into hardware requirements and verification objectives.
• Own schematics, documentation, circuit analysis and multilayer PCB layouts for embedded and power electronics.
• Collaborate with Software, FPGA and Mechanical Engineering to develop hardware architectures.
• Plan and execute hardware prototyping, bring-up, debugging, robustness testing and qualification.
• Contribute to testing of electronics subsystems including power distribution and sensor nodes.
• Own designs through production and qualification testing for reliability and EMC standards.
• Assess architectures for robustness, testability and future qualification needs.

Skills

Schematic design

High-speed digital

Power electronics

Embedded hardware

Circuit analysis

PCB design

EMC/EMI design

Education

Electronics Engineering degree

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Cadence

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will transform innovative concepts into robust, deployable hardware solutions. From requirements capture and circuit design through to prototyping, test, validation, and production, you will play a key role in developing the avionics and other electronic systems at the heart of our platforms. Working across areas such as embedded systems, power electronics, sensor networks, RF, high-speed digital, and electro-mechanical systems, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable, high-performance products. You will take designs from initial concept through manufacture and qualification, helping bring advanced technologies from development into real-world operation.

Responsibilities

• Translate System requirement into hardware requirements, interface definitions, design assumptions and verification objectives.
• Ownership of the entire design including schematics , design documentation, circuit analysis and multilayer PCB layouts for embedded, mixed signal, high speed digital, RF, and power electronics using industry standard CAD tools
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines such as Software, FPGA and Mechanical Engineering to develop hardware architectures for complex and demanding system applications.
• Plan and execute structured hardware prototyping, bring-up, debugging, robustness testing, fault injection, environmental testing and verify designs against requirements.
• Contribute to the testing of electronics subsystems including embedded systems, electro-mechanical systems, power distribution, sensor nodes and processing systems.
• Own electronic designs as they are scaled up for production & manufacture and taken through qualification testing for reliability, environmental and EMC standards compliance.
• Assess existing and new electronics architecture and designs with regards to user requirements, robustness, failure behaviours, testability and future qualifications.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in electronics development, ideally within high reliability, mission critical or safety-critical applications such as avionics, space, automotive, medical, industrial safety.
• Degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong schematic design and circuit analysis skills including high speed digital , mixed signal and power electronics.
• Hands-on professional experience in designing PCB using CAD design tools (e.g., Altium, KiCad, Cadence)
• Experience with embedded hardware, microcontrollers, and digital interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, LVDS, etc.)
• Practical hands on experience with hardware bring-up, debugging, and structured testing using lab test & measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, logic analysers.
• Understanding of EMC/EMI design principles
• Ability to read and interpret technical specifications and standards.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience in fast-paced R&D or startup environments, with rapid prototype iteration times
• Experience of designing complex electronics hardware for volume production and manufacturing scale up
• Experience of delivering electronics designs for defence applications and environmentsStrong knowledge of power electronics or electro-mechanical systems
• Experience of designing electronics as part of systems which include RF functionality

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lunchtime catering on site

About Us

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.

We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.

We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.

If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement.