Senior Embedded Electronic Engineer

Role: Senior Embedded Electronic Engineer

Located: Tadworth, Surrey (4x days a week onsite)

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: 37.5 hours a week, 4% Employers, Employee 4%, Death in Service Cover of 4 x basic salary, Income Protection, Private Medical

** This role is exclusive to people source, and you must apply via this advert **

Main Purpose:

Working within the existing team you will be involved with NPI&NPE/ developing the hardware and software of existing and new products; battery powered remote telemetry units / IoT (industrialized electronics) using complex microcontroller/ARM processors and modems that uses wireless technologies (e.g. GPRS/3G, ISM) for generating & transporting accurate data using sensors like RADAR, Temperature, Water Quality, Contamination/Smell and more. The role will cover all areas of a product's lifecycle, electronic prototyping, design development, CAD/CAM schematic design, Artwork/layout, and technical support with contract manufacturers for quality and regulatory assessments.

Principle accountabilities:

• Responsible for Electronic /IoT product hardware through all phases of the product life cycle development
• Participate in, or when required, deliver the product development activities (circuit design, analysis, improvements, alternate parts etc.) for designated products or customers.
• Ensure that all product development specifications conform to the company engineering (R&D) design authority for customer requirements and set out specific verifications and validations implementation needs for the product assurance.
• Manage the production of complete products through PCB, Placing the components, Board Bring up and tests through platform integrations until the EOL.
• Ensure the BOM is maintained with update components that has long life and value for money.
• Design should be adhere the certification or ATEX standards to qualify the RoSH, UL & EN, FCC, CE and UK CA.
• Ensure that product and design documentation is maintained.
• Provide inputs in to the sales process as required by the Engineering Director, including attending and participating in presentations to customers or other third parties.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to remove dependencies and risks during development life cycle and customer supports/returns etc.
• Provide technical support to customers using online ticketing system.

Knowledge / Experience Required:

• Very good knowledge electronics components, connecting the components in a circuit/ interfaces to develop a PCB.
• PCB design: layer stack-up, design rules (best practices), electro-magnetic & mechanical distribution design. Working with design review process and negotiating with internal & external electronic development house to make a successful PCB
• Produce Circuit design & schematic capture using Altium/Mentor/OraCAD/AutoDesk PCB design tool. Maintain Altium component library & 3D models and designs database.
• Undertake PCB analysis of PCB designs from engineers for RF or Thermal issues and feedback results
• Create & maintain drawing & documents to allow PCB manufacture to BS/ATEX standards
• Investigate and define answers to PCB design problems via NCR's from manufacturing.
• Capture legacy PCB designs with a view to transferring them to Altium as needed to support manufacture
• Regulatory certifications like CE, FCC, UL, EN etc.
• Low-power design for digital electronics, SMPS and LDO
• Mobile communications: GPRS/3G/4G, LPWAN/LoRa/NB-IoT
• RF and EMI/EMC design practices, CE Standards and Conformance
• Design for hazardous environments: ATEX/Explosive Environments, IP ratings
• Software design: RTOS (MQX), C++, Assembler, C#, ARM Cortex processors, Linux, Jira, SVN
• Industrial Protocols: IEC(phone number removed), 4-20mA, Modbus, PROFINET, M-Bus, SDI-12, WITS, DNP3

Additional Knowledge / Experience:

• Experience with HDL languages such as Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC.
• Good understanding of software languages and integration processes.
• Exceptional attention to detail and precision.
• Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience of Eclipse based IDE's and use of JTAG debugging tools
• Experienced user of IT equipment and Microsoft Office Software suite

Education / Experience:

• Degree level qualification in Electronic Engineering or related course. General education including A Level passes or equivalent
• At least two to three years post qualification experience in an electronic engineering or embedded programming environment.
• Good in designing and developing components such as printed circuit boards (PCB), processors, memory modules, and network components. Hands-on experience in electrical and electronics circuits using embedded using microprocessor or microcontrollers with bare metal in nature
• CAD/CAM tools: Schematic design, PCB layout, and artwork software e.g. Altium Designer, OrCAD, KiCad, Eagle, Gerber Viewers.
• Familiarity with ARM based microprocessors and microcontrollers
• Experience in ATEX design essentials with peripheral electronics components behaviours during validation/verification ( e.g. UART, SPI, ADC, Interrupts, GPIO, SRAM, Flash)
• Testing hardware prototypes and analysing and interpreting performance data.
• Generating analytic and performance reports for presentation and revision.
• Troubleshooting and diagnosing errors and suggesting suitable repairs or modifications.
• Overseeing the manufacturing process of electrical components to ensure they meet the design specifications
• Collaborating with firmware/software engineers to ensure software compatibility and integration with the hardware components.
• Testing hardware prototypes and analysing / validating and interpreting performance data.
• Full UK Driving License

How to apply?

Please send a CV to (url removed)

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