Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer, Energy Grid

GE Vernova; Stafford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to design and troubleshoot complex analogue, digital, and mixed-signal electronics for grid-related systems. You’ll redesign up to Core CPU level with high-speed memory constraints using FPGA/CPLD, and collaborate with firmware, safety, and verification teams across global sites.

You will support R&D prototype bring-up, DFM/DFT improvements, and transition to manufacturing, while working in a regulated, high-reliability environment with a focus

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in electronics; degree preferred but HNC/HND accepted with industry involvement.
• Advanced analogue and digital design with mixed-signal emphasis.
• Experience with embedded hardware in industrial/energy applications.
• Hands-on troubleshooting with lab equipment (scope, logic analyser, DMM).

Responsibilities

• Design and troubleshoot complex analogue, digital, and mixed-signal electronics issues at board and system level, incl Ethernet.
• Redesign up to Core CPU level with High-Speed Memory constraints using FPGA/CPLD.
• Provide design support for Control and Protection hardware across development, manufacturing, deployed systems.
• Review and support schematics, PCB layouts, and design documentation.
• Collaborate with firmware, systems, safety, and verification teams and outsource test teams.
• Support R&D activities including prototype bring-up, validation, and verification testing.
• Contribute to design-for-manufacture, design-for-test, reliability, and serviceability improvements.
• Support engineering change management, component selection, and obsolescence mitigation.
• Assist with transition from development into manufacturing and volume production.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing sites and contract manufacturers.
• Support production test development and resolve yield or test failures.
• Interface with suppliers on component quality; use RCA to drive CAPA.
• Demonstrate technical leadership within GE Vernova's global R&D and engineering structure.
• Act as key technical interface between UK engineering, global R&D and manufacturing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Analog/digital design

Embedded hardware

Troubleshooting

Schematic interpretation

Reliability engineering

EMC testing

FPGA design

PCB layout understanding

Education

Electronics degree

HNC/HND in electronics accepted

Tools

Altium

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to design and troubleshoot complex analogue, digital, and mixed-signal electronics for grid-related systems. You’ll redesign up to Core CPU level with high-speed memory constraints using FPGA/CPLD, and collaborate with firmware, safety, and verification teams across global sites.

You will support R&D prototype bring-up, DFM/DFT improvements, and transition to manufacturing, while working in a regulated, high-reliability environment with a focus