Senior Hardware Engineer - Product Redesign & High Speed Digital (x86)

Pure Resourcing Solutions; Essex; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 10% pension contribution

25 days holidays with holiday purchase

Job summary

Pure Resourcing Solutions client seeks an electronics hardware engineer to work hands-on with the newest Intel compute silicon in harsh environments. You’ll own products from redesign to field support, tackle obsolescence, and evolve boards to stay competitive.

You'll work in a lab with oscilloscope and logic analyser, contribute to schematics and high-density PCB layouts, and engage in design reviews to ensure robust performance. A strong electronics background is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional electronics engineering experience.
• Degree in electronics or related field.
• Desire to work with high-performance Intel compute silicon.
• Understanding of complex high-layer-count PCB design and signal integrity considerations.

Responsibilities

• Own product redesigns from issue investigation to verified fix.
• Test and redesign existing products from prototype to production.
• Lead the complete redesign of legacy products.
• Integrate latest market components to extend lifecycles.
• Create and update schematics and high-density PCB layouts (16-20 layers).
• Verify layout work for signal integrity and manufacturability.
• Tackle component obsolescence and manage documentation.
• Conduct design reviews, debugging with oscilloscope/logic analyser.
• Report progress and contribute to hardware development processes.

Skills

High-speed digital design

Electronics engineering

PCB design

Signal integrity

Crosstalk analysis

FPGAs

Embedded software awareness

Intel architecture

Education

Degree in electronics

Tools

Oscilloscope

Logic analyser

Environmental test chambers

Job description

Are you an electronics hardware engineer who wants hands-on access to the very newest generation of Intel silicon?

Our client has delivered high-performance embedded computing solutions across defence, telecoms, aerospace and more for decades, delivering best-in-class solutions that allow the latest generations of compute power to exist in the harshest of environments.

The Role

Once a product ships, someone owns it for the rest of its life. That's this role.

The early product hardware team spend six months to two years taking a product from spec to market; once it's out in the field, you take over. You'll solve the problems production and customers uncover, stay ahead of component obsolescence, and evolve the board to keep it competitive for years to come.

It means working on today's most advanced compute technology without the year-or-two design grind to get there. Every product you touch is already proven in the field, so you're solving real problems, not theoretical ones. Your candid feedback and collaborative spirit will help evolve hardware methodologies to keep mission-critical systems at the leading edge.

This is a hands-on role with a lot of lab work. You'll be as comfortable with an oscilloscope and logic analyser as you are at a screen, so it's an office-based role, though there is flexibility when life requires, or on the rare occasions when you don't need access to the products, and the oscilloscope.

What You Will Be Doing

• Full ownership of product redesign, from investigating reported issues through to a verified fix
• Testing and redesign of existing products post-design: From prototype validation through to production, incorporating customer and production feedback
• Lead the complete re-design of legacy products
• Integrate the latest market components to extend product lifecycles
• Create and modernise schematics and high-density PCB designs (16-20 layers), and verify layout work for signal integrity
• Tackle component obsolescence, and manage documentation
• Conduct design reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and environmental test chambers
• Report on technical progress
• Actively shape hardware development processes

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years of professional electronics engineering experience with a strong focus on high-speed digital circuit design and debugging
• Degree in a discipline relevant to electronics
• A desire to work with high-performance Intel architecture and the newest generation of compute silicon
• Understanding of complex, high-layer-count PCB design well enough to review and verify layout work, including signal integrity considerations such as crosstalk

Desirable But Not Required

• A desire to work with PC motherboard architecture (64-bit microprocessors, PCI Express, Ethernet, DDR4 Memory) or Inten chipsets
• FPGAs
• Some understanding of embedded software

Benefits

• Up to 10% employer contribution pension
• 25 days holidays with holiday purchase scheme
• Annual bonus / profit share
• Cycle to work, Home & Tech and car salary sacrifice schemes
• Death in service benefit & income protection
• Wellbeing - Employee assistance / virtual GP / enhanced parental leave / private health insurance / wellbeing apps / paid volunteering days