Senior Principal Electronics Engineer — Lead High‑Reliability HW

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

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Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer to own critical hardware development across our interceptor platform and to scale the electronics capability. You will lead analogue, digital and mixed-signal design, drive architecture decisions, and guide PCB work, with emphasis on high-reliability aerospace applications, RF, FPGA and DO-254 standards.

Join a fast-growing team building low-cost interceptors and undergoing rigorous testing and production readiness, with

Qualifications

• Strong background in electronic hardware design and development.
• Experience leading complex product or subsystem development programmes.
• Experience with analogue, digital and mixed-signal electronics.
• PCB design and hardware architecture experience.
• Experience working on aerospace, defence, autonomous systems, robotics, space or other high-reliability products.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through difficult technical problems.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience leading electronics teams within a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Knowledge of FPGA-based systems, RF electronics or signal processing hardware.
• Experience with DO-254, IEC 61508, DEF STAN or similar standards.
• Environmental & EMC qualification to military standards.

Responsibilities

• Defining electronics architecture across interceptor subsystems.
• Leading analogue, digital and mixed-signal hardware development.
• Driving requirements decomposition and hardware design decisions.
• Owning hardware technical risk reduction activities.
• Guiding PCB design, schematic reviews and component selection.
• Supporting RF integration and system-level performance optimisation.
• Leading verification, qualification and environmental testing activities.
• Supporting prototype, manufacturing and production readiness reviews.
• Growing and mentoring a team of electronics engineers.
• Establishing engineering best practices, review processes and design standards.

Skills

Electronic hardware design

Technical leadership

Multidisciplinary team leadership

Troubleshooting & root-cause analysis

Aerospace/defense high-reliability

FPGA-based systems

Tools

PCB design

RF test equipment

Signal processing hardware

DO-254 tooling

Job description

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer to own critical hardware development across our interceptor platform and to scale the electronics capability. You will lead analogue, digital and mixed-signal design, drive architecture decisions, and guide PCB work, with emphasis on high-reliability aerospace applications, RF, FPGA and DO-254 standards.

Join a fast-growing team building low-cost interceptors and undergoing rigorous testing and production readiness, with