Job title: Mechatronics Engineer (electronics heavy)
Location: Herefordshire, UK · Full-time – Mainly based on site but Hybrid.
Salary: £50 – 70k
Most hardware engineers wait years to see anything they design reach operational use. Here, the Mechatronics and electronics you design go into systems on operations today, and you will own how they get built rather than inherit someone else’s process.
Our client is one of the fastest-growing defence technology companies in Europe. Creating the software, hardware and networking that make unmanned systems effective on the modern battlefield, designed and manufactured end-to-end in the UK, and in active use.
A deliberately low-profile, small in headcount and outsized in effect. Looking for people who are not just talented but genuinely committed to the work, the team, and the purpose behind it.
You will own mechatronics and electronic hardware end to end, from a blank schematic to a product that performs reliably in the field. The role is still being shaped, so you will set the standard as you go: write the procedures, define the review process, and grow a small team around you. What you design reaches operational use in weeks and months, not years and decades, and the way it gets done is yours to define rather than handed down.
Responsibilities
- Design all mechatronic and electronic systems
- Create analog and digital circuits, Electronic schematics
- Take hardware from first prototype through testing and debug to a validated design
- Review PCB layouts for signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and manufacturability
- Own power design: DC-DC, LDO, and battery and charging systems
- DfM – prototyping and concept through to production- working with manufacturing team
- Work alongside firmware, mechanical, and systems engineers to make the whole system performs
Requirements
Minimum:
- Experience designing analog and digital electronic circuits, from schematic through to validated hardware
- Experience integrating mechanical and electronic systems into physical platforms or vehicles.
- Strong prototyping, concept design and NPI experience
- Strong hands-on lab and debugging skills
- Power electronics experience: regulators, protection, battery and charging systems
- A track record of component selection and BOM ownership, balancing availability, cost, and alternates
- Eligible for UK SC clearance (UK citizen or 5+ years UK residency)
- Willing to work on site in our offices in the West Midlands at least three days a week
Preferred:
- PCB layout experience and a working grasp of EMI/EMC and ESD reliability
- Experience taking hardware through manufacturing and into production
- Experience mentoring or coaching engineers and establishing processes and standards within a growing team
- Evidence of hands-on engineering interests outside work: cars, 3D printers, robotics
- Wiring harness or wiring loom experience
- Working with Jigs and Rigs for testing
- Experience with KICAD
- Experience with MIPI CSI / CSI-2
- An interest in aerospace or aviation
Benefits
The job is demanding enough, so they try to take the everyday pressures off your plate. The benefits are built around that, starting with a genuine stake in what they are building.
- Share options vesting over three years, so you own a real piece of it
- Bupa private health, fully funded from day one
- 6% employer pension contribution
- 25 days leave plus bank holidays, and properly enhanced cover for both parents
- Enterprise level AI tooling, with as many tokens as you need to accelerate your work
- Relocation support if you are moving to join, or a home office budget if you work remotely
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