Job Title:
Senior Electronics Engineer
Location:
East Kent (Onsite)
Type:
Permanent
Salary:
£60,000 DOE
Overview:
We're working with a leading engineering company based in
East Kent
who are looking to hire an experienced
Hardware Design Engineer
to join their onsite R&D team. The role involves designing robust, high-performance electronic systems used in innovative and technically demanding applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop analogue and digital electronics, including sensor interfaces, power regulation, and signal conditioning.
- Create schematics and PCB layouts, ensuring designs meet EMC, thermal, and mechanical requirements.
- Support prototype bring-up, board testing, and debugging using lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analysers, etc.).
- Collaborate with embedded software, mechanical, and systems engineers throughout the full development lifecycle.
- Ensure documentation, design reviews, and verification activities align with industry and regulatory standards.
- Participate in DFM/DFA, supplier liaison, and transfer to manufacture.
Essential Experience & Skills:
- Proven experience in electronics design for embedded or high-reliability systems.
- Strong skills in schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout (e.g., Altium, KiCad, or similar).
- Comfortable with mixed-signal design, power supplies, and microcontroller-based systems.
- Experience with EMC compliance, testing, and fault-finding.
- Ability to work hands-on in the lab, taking designs from concept through to production.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of FPGA/CPLD integration, high-speed digital design, or RF experience.
- Familiarity with design for safety-critical or regulated environments (e.g., aerospace, medtech).
- Understanding of thermal analysis, signal integrity, or low-noise analog design.
For more information or to apply, please contact Tom Fear ()