Senior Power Electronics Design Authority

Raytheon UK; Glenrothes; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

25 days holiday + statutory holidays +

Pension scheme (up to 10.5% company)

Discretionary bonus

Life Assurance (6x salary)

Flexible Benefits (health cash plan, a

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking a Hardware Design Authority (Power Electronics) in Scotland, with relocation assistance to Glenrothes or Livingston. You will act as the technical focal point for complex electronic systems, guiding architecture, mentoring engineers, and steering designs from concept to production while ensuring compliance and quality throughout the lifecycle.

The role requires extensive expertise in power electronics, embedded electronics, and a systems engineering approach, with the

Qualifications

• Compliance to defence engineering standards (DEF-STAN, MIL-STD).
• Design for Manufacture, Assembly and Test.
• Leading a design team whilst mentoring others to improve deliverables and product design.
• Reviewing and producing detailed analysis, simulation, and technical reports.
• Applying a systems engineering approach across the full product lifecycle.
• Significant experience in power electronics design, including a range of topologies.
• Proven ability to design from prototype through to production.
• Experience designing custom or semi-custom magnetic components.
• Strong understanding of embedded digital electronics, including microprocessors.
• Practical experience with schematic capture, PCB design, and verification.
• Ability to analyse problems using SPICE-based and Simulink simulation tools, communicate outcomes clearly.
• Comfortable operating in a changing environment with competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Drive assurance and quality of the products design and its artefacts.
• Mentor our hardware engineers and future DAs.
• Provide technical leadership within a multi‑disciplinary design team.
• Lead the design and development of power electronic systems, from concept through to qualification and beyond.
• Lead by example with respect to Compliance, Safety and Quality, embracing internal and external processes.
• Solve complex technical problems on both new developments and existing products.
• Capture, interpret, and derive customer requirements into clearly bounded design specifications.
• Ensure high‑quality schematics, simulations, PCB designs, and support component selection, evaluation, and verification.
• Direct design reviews, commissioning, debug, fault diagnosis, and lifecycle support.
• Design to cost and schedule, working effectively within approved budgets.
• Ensure designs meet relevant industry, customer, and regulatory standards.
• Guarantee configuration control and managed design change.
• Challenge the team to ensure clear, concise technical documentation and reports.
• Act as a technical authority in customer discussions within your area of expertise

Skills

Power electronics design

Embedded digital electronics

Microprocessors

Schematic capture

PCB design

Verification

SPICE simulations

Design for manufacture

Technical leadership

Systems engineering

Defence standards compliance

Safety & quality processes

Tools

Mentor Xpedition

Job description

Raytheon UK is seeking a Hardware Design Authority (Power Electronics) in Scotland, with relocation assistance to Glenrothes or Livingston. You will act as the technical focal point for complex electronic systems, guiding architecture, mentoring engineers, and steering designs from concept to production while ensuring compliance and quality throughout the lifecycle.

The role requires extensive expertise in power electronics, embedded electronics, and a systems engineering approach, with the