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Hardware Engineer | Hybrid

Rolls Royce
Derby
2 months ago
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5 days in the OfficeA role within Submarines will offer you the opportunity to work across all phases of the product life cycle, solving technical challenges across a wide range of digital, software, programmable hardware and electronics technologies, systems, and applications.We want you to maximise your potential and will support your technical development through coaching, experience, and training. This will include professional mentoring to start your journey towards becoming a chartered engineer or to continue your professional development.Our submarines business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You can find out more about the amazing projects that we are working on here:-An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.You will be encouraged to bring in fresh ideas and generate creative ways of working to make a stepped improvement in our effectiveness, allowing you to make an impact in delivering programmes that are strategically important to the nation.The team uses agile SCRUM methods to develop high integrity products adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures and designs for controls applications essential for the protection and monitoring of nuclear propulsion plant.In addition to design activities, you will be engaged in the integration of programmable parts on to existing hardware products and you will define and carry out platform integration testing on a range of products.Within the hardware team there are opportunities to develop your career in technical management, team leadership or as a technical specialist.We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.Integrating of software and programmable hardware onto hardware platforms,Defining and carrying out detailed integration testing,Developing automated testing procedures,Managing change control and configuration management,

You will be expected to engage in continued improvement of our hardware development process, for cost and timescale reduction and quality improvement,You will liaise with software, systems, programmable hardware and safety teams,These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all rolesIn Electronics Engineering, or related discipline,Experienced in digital electronics design,Planning and organising own and others' workBy building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at careers.To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don't currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Software Systems

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