Senior Hardware Engineer – Electronics

We are exclusively partnering with an emerging technology developer based in Ely on their latest recruitment drive which will see the company double in size. A startup, in R&D stage, financially backed by a wider global organisation, that innovates and creates exceptional products, technologies and services that will improve the lives of people while collaborating with some of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Within walking distance of Ely train station this role is accessible from both London and Cambridge within 1 hour. The successful candidate will be at the centre of a high-performance R&D Team that operates under the core SCRUM principles.

Who are we?

We are Busy Bee Recruitment, an awarding-winning recruitment agency supplying both temporary and permanent staffing solutions throughout the UK to our client base spanning multiple sectors including: Sales & Marketing, Admin & Customer Service, Technical & Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing, Finance & Accountancy, Care & Education, Supply Chain & Logistics. 

Duties:

• Electronics design process, schematic capture, component selection, simulation, and PCB layout
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, new electronics laboratory requirements & certifications to improve existing facilities.
• Ensure hardware designs are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory and safety standards
• Co-ordinate early prototype builds, taking a hands-on approach to hardware design
• Design debugging and verification by taking part
• Leading the subsystem level DFMEA activities to help identify risks and suitable mitigations
• Perform requirements analysis and requirements
• Review and set requirements for firmware/FPGA engineers to produce test specifications
• Ensuring test procedures and processes are compatible with the CI of products and technologies
• Contributing to meetings through document preparation, presentations
• Estimating time and effort required for hardware (and firmware) activities and delivering to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
• Reviewing technical proposals
• Assist with providing accurate estimates
• Define, architect, develop, document, and Test FPGA firmware

What our client is looking for from you:

• Experience as a SCRUM team member is an advantage
• 5+ years of full life cycle experience in the R&D of Commercial Products and Technologies,
• Extensive industry experience, working on the development of production-ready systems and the design of multi-layer PCB's (stack-up design)
• Electronics design in CAD (preferably Altium but also Mentor-Graphics), both schematic and layout.
• Experience with microprocessor and microcontroller designs, communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Profibus, etc), high-speed communication interfaces and buses.
• Design for EMC compliance design for manufacturing and test (DFM, DFT)
• Experience with power supply design in a mobile or low power environment, memory subsystems
• Ability to use SCRUM project management principles

Skills that are a distinct advantage:

• Experience in developing and implementing complex imaging or tomographic devices such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, etc is an advantage.
• Experience in Electromagnetic Tomography Circuit Design such as ECT, EIT, ERT, MIT, CIFT is a distinct advantage

If you have not received a response within 3-5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Busy Bee Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency for this Permanent vacancy.

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