Senior Hardware Engineer: Embedded & Power, Hybrid

Ralliant; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralliant is seeking a Hardware Staff Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in developing monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions for power networks. You will lead embedded hardware design, guide cross-functional teams, and drive robust, high-quality products through concept, production, and lifecycle support.

The role combines hands-on technical contribution with engineering leadership, requiring deep expertise in electronic design, problem solving, and mentoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience delivering embedded hardware from concept through production and lifecycle support.
• Proven experience designing mixed-signal, analogue, digital, and embedded electronic systems.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal management, reliability, and industrial product design.
• Experience developing hardware platforms with embedded processors, communication interfaces, data acquisition, sensing technologies, and industrial networking.
• Ability to lead complex technical investigations and make sound engineering decisions within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supporting product verification, validation, regulatory compliance, and production release processes.
• Strong communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers without direct line management responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of embedded electronic hardware for monitoring, protection, recording, and industrial instrumentation products.
• Translate system and product requirements into robust hardware designs that meet performance, reliability, regulatory, manufacturing, and cost objectives.
• Design, analyse, and review analogue, mixed-signal, digital, power, and communications circuitry for mission-critical industrial applications.
• Collaborate with Architects, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Test teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
• Drive technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex design and field issues.
• Lead schematic design, component selection, circuit simulation, design verification, laboratory evaluation, and PCB design reviews.
• Support architecture implementation by contributing technical expertise to system-level design decisions and product platform development.
• Lead and contribute to technical design reviews, governance activities, and development best practices.
• Define and execute hardware verification, validation, qualification, and compliance testing activities.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, product enhancements, value engineering, and component obsolescence management.
• Identify technical risks early, develop mitigation plans, and provide leadership during complex technical challenges.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Embedded hardware design

Electrical engineering

System integration

Technical leadership

Documentation and governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering

Tools

PCB design tools

Circuit simulation

Embedded processors

Job description

Ralliant is seeking a Hardware Staff Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in developing monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions for power networks. You will lead embedded hardware design, guide cross-functional teams, and drive robust, high-quality products through concept, production, and lifecycle support.

The role combines hands-on technical contribution with engineering leadership, requiring deep expertise in electronic design, problem solving, and mentoring