Company: Stealth Startup
Location: London
Posted: April 26th, 2026
Rate: £700 per day
Commitment: 3 days per week
Location: London (onsite)
Duration: 3 months (with possibility of extension)
Company info
A well-funded technology company is looking for a senior hardware engineer to contribute to an active development programme on a complex, regulated electronic product. The contract has a well-defined scope spanning hands-on engineering, technical documentation, and workstream continuity support.
What you'll work on
- Board bring up, verification, and functional testing of a precision optical sensing PCBA; implement design changes and support DFM activities
- Finalise electronics designs and produce documentation packages for transfer to contract manufacture
- Provide technical direction across prototype build phases; prepare V&V plans and support test execution
- Author FPGA architecture specifications, subsystem requirements documents, test system definitions, and single fault analyses
- Maintain EDA tool templates and libraries
Required experience
- Proven hands-on hardware engineering background on complex, regulated electronic products
- FPGA development experience, ideally Xilinx/AMD, with Altium Designer for PCB work
- Exposure to optical or optoelectronic systems
- Comfortable producing formal engineering documentation including specifications and safety analyses