Job Title: Electronics Engineer
Location: Edinburgh – Hybrid 3+ days on-site per week
Role Type: Permanent
Salary: £50,000 – £80,000 per annum, depending on experience
Our client, an established engineering consultancy, require an experienced Electronics Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team in Edinburgh.
The Electronics Engineer would be responsible for design, commissioning and test of high-speed digital electronics hardware, i.e. Printed Circuit Assemblies (PCA’s) on complex systems for airborne Radar products.
What the role of the Electronics Engineer entails:
- Creating high-quality and robust digital electronics designs
- Documenting and recording deliverables
- Supporting integration & verification activities at hardware and system level
- Keeping designs under configuration control
- Providing progress reports
- Coordinating day-to-day technical activities, liaising closely with the lead engineer / digital hardware lead & other engineering disciplines
What experience you need to be the successful Electronics Engineer:
- Degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or other STEM-based subject
- A minimum of 1 to 3 years’ experience of designing high-speed digital electronics using the latest FPGA and / or microprocessor devices and high-speed interconnect technology
- Experience in schematic capture using Mentor Graphics (Siemens EDA) DxDesigner or similar tools
- Experience of high-speed serial communication interfaces/ protocols (e.g. PCIe, Ethernet/ IEEE802.3, SPI, I2C, etc.) and high-speed bus architectures (e.g. DDR3/4)
- Use of high-speed digital design techniques such as signal termination, controlled impedance, matched length tracking, ground/ power planes, decoupling, etc.
- Functional simulation & timing analysis / constraints at circuit level
- Experience of PCB layout, working closely with and providing guidance to PCB layout engineers on high-speed digital designs
- Hands on experience of integrating hardware, firmware & software on FPGA and microprocessor-based PCA’s
- Experience of debugging & testing new hardware designs
- Previous experience of the full hardware design lifecycle and presenting designs for peer and formal design reviews
- Self-motivated, with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion
- Experience in writing technical reports / documentation
UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance.
Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage.
This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Electronics Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don’t miss out!
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