Firmware Engineer

Electronic Hardware Design/Firmware Engineers x 5 Roles (Senior/Principle)

Thames Valley and Greater London Location

• Fantastic Culture - Grown up environment!
• Permanent hire.
• Hybrid Working Arrangement (Flexible mix of Home/Onsite).
• Advanced electronic products designed, manufactured and supported.
• Stable career environment.
• A split of Electronic Hardware Design and Firmware Development is required.

IMPORTANT NOTICE – UK Home Office Security Clearance (SC) is required due to all areas of the business being UK eyes only, and clearance will be granted to UK Citizens/British Passport Holders & ILR overseas workers. Applicants who do not qualify need not apply.

Our client is a well-established electronics consulting firm, focussed on the design and production of electronic products within the Marine and Subsea aspect of defence, awareness and warfare anticipation/prevention.

On behalf of our client, we are searching for talented Engineers who have a balanced split of electronic hardware design as well as some firmware/embedded development skills, to join them on their journey of growth as they embark on an exciting business transformation, with an impressive portfolio of clients who include the UK Ministry of Defence and our Royal Armed Forces.

The company specialises in all areas of cutting-edge technology, focussing largely on software and electronics design/production.

You will provide the following service:

• Interpretation of system requirements and ability to decompose and flow them down into hardware requirements;
• Conduct Electronics and/or Firmware development activities and reviews, covering full system, sub-system and individual board design/coding;
• Ensure that the technical solution meets the customer, legislative and business requirements;
• Responsible for some level of technical oversight of the engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle;
• Responsible for supporting the team planning and estimation activities at the kick-off of new projects;
• To identify and resolve qualification, certification and safety issues;
• Produce project technical documentation,
• Coaching and mentoring of more junior Engineers;
• Liaising with customers and suppliers as appropriate;
• Overseeing initial test and integration including formal testing;

As the perfect match for this role, you will be/have:

• In-depth experience across the whole project lifecycle as an electronics/firmware engineer, from bids and proposals through to in-service support (ideally from within the defence sector).
• Hands-on experience of designing complex systems involving multiple electronics disciplines and understanding of associated challenges / usual pitfalls.
• Successful delivery of reliable solutions to timescale and budget as part of fixed-price contracts.
• Used to dealing with a wide range of stakeholders beyond Electronics Engineering domain (i.e. Project Management, Systems, Mechanical and Software Engineering) as part of multi-disciplinary project team to resolve issues that arise during the lifespan of a project.
• Degree level (or equivalent) in engineering discipline
• Analog and digital technologies,
• Design for EMC, Electrical Safety & Signal Integrity including schematic and PCB layout,
• Exposure to appropriate branch of electronics (e.g. power/high speed digital/analogue/RF/Sonar);
• Familiarity with one or more PMRP and ECAD tools;
• Design for manufacture, understanding of full project life cycle.
• Prototyping, test and verification of electronic subsystems at PCB, unit and sub-system level.
• Component selection and an understanding of associated issues to include obsolescence and environmental aspects (REACH, RoHS etc.)
• Use of standard office tools and knowledge of engineering tools such as DOORS, ERPs and Configuration Management tools.

Desirable Experience (non-essential):

• Design for Low Noise, Low Power Analogue Receiver front ends utilising JFETs and Low noise differential Amplifiers,
• MicroSemi/Intel FPGA Design experience
• 24 Bit ADC Design
• Filter Design
• VME/VPX Design Experience
• Power Amplifier design SIC FET technology up to 1500V DC
• Power Supply Design Mains Supply and DC-DC converters
• Cadstar ECAD experience

The key factors are that the work is exciting, and the culture is great!

There is flexibility to work from home and/or one of the offices located in the south of England.

You will be contributing to/leading amazing teams delivering incredible products.

Relocation Support

Our client can offer financial support to candidates who are considering relocating from the North of England, or other areas non-accessible to the various R&D centres dotted across the South, though this is considered on a case-by-case basis per role and subject to HMRC guidelines.

We very much look forward to receiving your application, and ALL relevant candidates will receive a response to advise if successful or not. APPLY now!