Digital Electronics Lead Hardware Engineer in Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Digital Electronics Lead Hardware Engineer

Stevenage

A Responsible Engineer is the technical design authority for all areas of the equipment hardware design. These equipment include digital processor and cryptographic equipment destined for Telecom and military payloads on various satellite platforms.

This role is for a Hardware responsible engineer for flight equipment. The role entails hardware aspects of requirements management, detailed design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses.

Able to interpret circuit board designs accommodating multiple FPGA / ASICs and high speed ADCs / DACs.

Support to manufacture and test -

Interface with many experts in other departments (e.g. radiation, EMC).

Customer interface on technical issues.

Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.

Job Profile

Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities -

• Coordination of all technical elements of the project, working with and overseeing the work of design engineers in the same functional team
• Produce digital electronic board specifications, from product or architecture requirements
• Define interfaces and digital parameters.
• Consider switching speeds, pulses, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission
• Define performance criteria and define how to prove validation and verification of performance with test strategy.
• Produce and review circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints.
• Produce and review detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMECA/FMEA
• Work closely with other engineering teams to support detailed design in CAD/CAM or VHDL implementation on component/ equipment/ mechanical/VHDL level in accordance with engineering design rules.
• Interface with internal support functions e.g. radiation, thermal and mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement
• Lead technical interface to external customer and suppliers
• Provide progress updates to technical and project managers, provide inputs for scheduling and costing
• Lead engineering investigations, troubleshooting and problem resolution activity

Skills

Essential:

High speed electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection and related analyses.

Desirable:

Mentor DxDesigner.

Requirements management (DOORS) and SoC / RFD management.

Overleaf/-

Experience

Essential: Digital Electronics Lead Hardware Engineer

Lifecycle experience of digital equipments - design / manufacture / test, including customer interfacing.

Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years

Hardware used - debug and test validation of designs

Software used - schematic capture, layout and simulation tools (e.g. Mentor Expedition)

Standards/accreditations/methodologies - ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards

Experience of team leadership, mentoring junior design engineers

Desirable:

Space industry experience.

Education & Training

Degree level, electronics engineering or similar (e.g. physics)

Working Pattern

Monday to Friday days

Base of Work

Following a familiarisation period on site this role will be hybrid working with around three days per week on site - but candidates must be able to work on site full time when required - free parking is provided for this role.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited (ARM). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.