Senior Electronics Engineer

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Senior Electronics Engineer - Purpose of the Role

The purpose of the role will have a systems thinking mindset, coupled with extensive knowledge of complex product development. 

Our engineers are responsible for delivering tasks to support product design, development, and verification. They will have opportunities to engage with our customers, supporting meetings, systems integration, and product verification/validation trials. They will work under close guidance from project leads and subject matter experts, but they are responsible for delivering their allocated tasks to meet project milestones.

Senior Electronics Engineer - Key Responsibilities:

Take ownership of the design and development of electronic sub-systems for the aerospace and defence market 
Deliver project tasks to schedule, cost and quality while adhering to internal processes and best practices. 
Research, design, develop and prototype electronic solutions in support of product development.
Characterise, test and down-select components for performance and cost. 
Schematic capture of mixed signal circuit Design (Analogue, RF and Digital) using Altium or similar.
Test, characterisation and verification of prototype designs
Circuit simulation using LT Spice, Agilent ADS
Develop, write and deploy software to aid evaluation of electronic devices or automate test equipment using C# or similar.
Outline of Competencies:

Experience in the design of RF, High Speed digital or Power Supply electronics models
Good knowledge of current RF technologies including – low noise receiver design, RF sampling ADCs and DACs, PLL/Synthesisers, digital attenuators, receiver protectors, power amplifiers and lumped-element circuit design.
Knowledge of RF Antenna Systems and awareness of Phase Array Antennas.
Knowledge of GPS and its vulnerabilities would be advantageous but not essential.
Knowledge of common interface busses such as SPI, I2C and PMBus would be advantageous.
Good knowledge of current high-speed digital technologies, CPLD, Microprocessor, FPGA, DDR Memory etc.
Experience in deriving and capturing system-level requirements from high-level customer requirements 
Experience in Project life-cycle delivery from bids to operation.
Experience in design or manufacturing in the aviation industry.
Excellent verbal and written communication Skills. Ability to interface and effectively influence and negotiate with internal and external customers at all levels.
Maintain high levels of integrity, work ethic and confidentiality and use discretion appropriately.
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Qualifications and Experience required:

Team working ability and drive to deliver on time
C experience in an embedded environment
Experience with embedded processors and real-time operating systems
Experience in interfacing with hardware devices and peripherals
Solid understanding of software development life cycles and processes
Experience in requirement analysis, software design and software architecture
Experience with source control tools such as SubVersion and Git
Behavioural: self-starting, adaptable, problem solving 
Desirable

C++ experience in an embedded environment
Object Oriented Design and Programming experience
Familiarity with desktop applications, GUI/event-based design
Knowledge of issue-tracking tools, such as Jira.
Knowledge of releasing software to Production 
Knowledge of DO-178 would be advantageous
 
More information on the Senior Electronics Engineer please email: (url removed)

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