Senior Hardware Design Engineer — Full Lifecycle

Christy Media Solutions; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Christy Media Solutions is seeking a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to lead hardware development for video technology products, from concept through to manufacture. You’ll own end-to-end design, creating robust schematics and dense PCB layouts while balancing performance, cost and reliability.

You will collaborate with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams, support prototype bring-up, and contribute to EMC and pre-compliance activities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in analogue and digital electronic design.
• Strong schematic capture and PCB design skills, including dense or complex layouts.
• Understanding of microprocessors, programmable logic and embedded electronics.
• Practical experience debugging, validating and refining hardware designs.
• Exposure to EMC design at system level.
• Comfortable working to deadlines and balancing quality with delivery.
• Methodical approach to documentation, testing and design records.
• Confident communicator who works well in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing electronic systems from concept through to production-ready hardware
• Creating schematics and complex, multi-layer PCB layouts, balancing performance, signal integrity and manufacturability
• Developing and programming electronic components to meet functional and performance requirements
• Supporting prototype bring-up, debugging and fault-finding down to component level
• Contributing to system-level EMC design and validation, including pre-compliance activities
• Designing and building bespoke test equipment and fixtures to support development and production testing
• Supporting products through NPI and into volume manufacture
• Working closely with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing partners
• Collaborating with contract manufacturers to ensure smooth transfer from design to production
• Producing clear, structured technical documentation to support long-term product support

Skills

Analogue design

Digital design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Microprocessors

Embedded electronics

EMC design

Documentation

Team communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Tools

PCB design tools

Job description

Christy Media Solutions is seeking a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to lead hardware development for video technology products, from concept through to manufacture. You’ll own end-to-end design, creating robust schematics and dense PCB layouts while balancing performance, cost and reliability.

You will collaborate with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams, support prototype bring-up, and contribute to EMC and pre-compliance activities.