Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer – High‑Speed Aerospace PCBs

PUK Penny & Giles Controls Limited; Letchworth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Retirement with Employer Match

Health and Wellness Benefits

Learning and Development Opportunities

Competitive Pay

Bonus Scheme

Recognition

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Inclusive & Supportive Culture

Job summary

Curtiss‑Wright seeks an Electronics Hardware Engineer for the UK team, based at Letchworth with hybrid working. You will design high‑speed multi‑layer PCBs for rugged embedded systems used in defence applications, from concept through production support.

You will work on PCIe/Ethernet interfaces, participate in schematic capture, layout guidance, and signal integrity, and collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in electronic design.
• Understanding of high-speed design, grounding, and EMC and willingness to develop.
• Experience with Altium, OrCAD, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop multi-layer PCBs for high-speed embedded systems.
• Work on interfaces including PCIe and Ethernet.
• Contribute to schematic capture and guide PCB layout with signal integrity, grounding, and EMC in mind.
• Support board bring-up, debug, and verification in the lab.
• Work across analogue, digital, and power domains.
• Collaborate with firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.
• Support environmental and qualification testing.
• Contribute to design reviews and technical decision‑making.
• Support production and resolve issues in deployed hardware.

Skills

Electronic design

High-speed design

Grounding & EMC

Altium/OrCAD proficiency

Tools

Altium

OrCAD

Job description

Curtiss‑Wright seeks an Electronics Hardware Engineer for the UK team, based at Letchworth with hybrid working. You will design high‑speed multi‑layer PCBs for rugged embedded systems used in defence applications, from concept through production support.

You will work on PCIe/Ethernet interfaces, participate in schematic capture, layout guidance, and signal integrity, and collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams.