Electronic Design Engineer
12 months
£81.90 per hour (Inside IR35)
Defence Marine
2-3 days per week - Portsmouth
This is a technical role relating to the Electronic aspects of hardware design & test.
The Role Holder will.
Generate and/or support electronic design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.
Generate and/or support detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of engineering issues.
Participate in all aspects of board and unit-level design and test including their interfaces with higher levels
Typical duties include :
The role holder will undertake some or all of the following tasks :-
* Detailed electronic circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and
liaising with PCB design teams.
* Specification of bespoke procured hardware.
* Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques, including support to EMC test
houses and customer installations.
* Generate design documentation and technical reports.
* Interfacing with related disciplines.
* Assist the development of higher level system designs.
* Assist the development of technical requirement specifications
* Support system integration activities
* Work with embedded software and PLD engineers as necessary
* Contribute to progress, peer, and design reviews
Knowledge:
- Generating component level electronic designs for introduction into volume production.
- Digital design including processor interfacing, memory devices, PLD interfacing, UARTs, SPI, I2C, Ethernet etc.
* ADC/DAC devices and techniques
- Analogue design including op-amps, transistor-level design, control loops and and low noise techniques.
- High power techniques.
- Design proving, integration, and defect resolution
- Gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
- Able to work within cost and timescale constraints
Skills: (Recommended max 5 /statements)
Desirable Skills
- Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
- Experience of low-noise analogue techniques
- Experience of high power techniques (kW level)
- Experience of FPGA/CPLD development
- Business Expertise (Requirements of the position for knowledge and expertise about the business rather than the technical expertise)
- The role holder:
- Will have a good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of a design team plus an understanding of the work of the design team.
- Will have a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design
- Will have an awareness of how cost and timescale constraints may impact business performance
- Leadership (Requirements of the position for providing leadership and guidance to others)
- The role holder:
- Is responsible for quality of own work and safety of self.
- May be required to mentor and coach team members according to seniority of appointment.
- Problem Solving (Breadth of mental skills required in order to perform the position)
- The role holder:
- Is required to make judgements based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations.
- Must assess the viability and applicability of solutions, evaluates alternatives based on an understanding of common or previous solutions to problems and analysis of factual information.
- Nature of Impact (Impact on business by detailing the overall responsibility associated with the job)
- The role holder is responsible for the quality and timely delivery of own work. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.
- Area of Impact (Business area impacted Delivery/Functional)
- Performance of the team and/or solution is directly affected by the job, and will have an impact on other teams involved in the task or work.
- Interpersonal Skills (type of people skills required to perform the job)
- The role holder:
- Requires good communication and diplomacy skills.
- Must understand detailed technical instructions and be able to communicate complex technical information to others.
