Senior High-Speed Digital Electronics Design Engineer

Leonardo; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the aerospace sector is seeking a Senior High-Speed Digital Electronics Design Engineer for its Edinburgh site, joining the GCAP development team. This role involves designing advanced radar sensor technologies and requires a mix of educational qualifications in Electrical Engineering and practical experience in PCB design and systems integration.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or related field.
• Experience in hardware and software integration.
• Strong analytical skills and methodical approach.

Responsibilities

• Design high-speed digital Printed Circuit Boards.
• Support hardware lifecycle from analysis to delivery.
• Document work under configuration management.

Skills

Schematic capture experience

Debugging

Time management

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

BSc, BEng, MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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Senior High-Speed Digital Electronics Design Engineer, Edinburgh

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Client:

Leonardo

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job Description:

We are looking for a senior High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineers to join the GCAP development team in Leonardo, to work at the either Edinburgh or Newcastle site.GCAP is an exciting new project team designing a new radar sensor. You will be working within a multi-disciplined delivery team with responsibility across the full engineering lifecycle from requirements capture to final delivery. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to join a highly skilled team at a time of significant growth of the GCAP programme.

What you’ll do as a Senior High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer:

This is an exciting opportunity for you as an experienced engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will:

• Designing high speed digital Printed Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, microprocessor and high-speed interconnect technologies
• Supporting throughout the full hardware lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, and unit test; to integrating hardware with the target system; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to customer
• Fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports
• Working within a multi-disciplined team of engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems

What we need from you:

• Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics)
• Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to hardware designs
• Schematic capture experience
• Design of high-speed serial communication links and knowledge of associated protocols and architectures
• Hands on experience of hardware, firmware & software integration of microprocessor-based designs onto hardware platforms is essential
• A methodical approach to the full hardware design lifecycle, working to a structured hardware process
• Debugging, testing and verification of new designs and supporting their commissioning and integration into the target system
• Ability to liaise with suppliers of key components and assemblies
• Ability to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form
• Ability to work on own or as part of a team to resolve technical issues
• Ability to schedule work and manage time in keeping with project timescales and budgets