Lead Electronics Engineer

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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

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Location: London
Job Description:

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

Posted: April 26th, 2026