Responsibilities

• Develop PCBA requirements in collaboration with other engineering disciplines, based on system level requirements.
• Design complex high-speed digital/analogue circuit boards from datasheet to completion.
• Design power supplies
• Schematic capture and PCB layout using Mentor Expedition
• Perform circuit analysis including power, tolerance, and reliability related.
• Perform all aspects of bring-up, including lower level driver coding.
• Perform design verification testing and system integration testing.
• Liaise closely with other disciplines, for example Systems, Software, RF, Production etc.

Required experience

• To be thrilled to be a part of a multi-disciplined and multi-geographical team.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 15+ years of experience in electronics hardware design including analysis, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, and testing.
• Design experience in the selection of components, taking into account not only the design specification, but also environmental, cost, EOL, lead time etc
• Low level power supply design experience, using simulation (LTspice) and knowledge of power managers and monitoring devices.
• Design experience of complex clocking and timing solutions including  jitter, phase noise measurements.
• Design experience with complex microprocessor/DSP devices – working from earlier silicon.
• Design experience with on-board high speed data buses (e.g: PCIe, Serdes, SATA) – including analysis
• Design experience with low/medium speed data buses (e.g: I2C, SPI, LVDS, PECL, RS422, LAN etc).
• Design experience of schematic capture and layout of complex PCBs, using the Mentor tool – including extensive PCB layout knowledge.
• Proficiency performing circuit analysis using suitable simulation tools (e,g: SPICE etc).
• Hands-on attitude to problem-solving, using test equipment – Scopes, DSOs, DMMs, Soldering Iron, ENV chamber,
• Experience with testing regimes, ensuring that test coverage is maximized.
• Experience in circuit calibration and characterization over extremes of operating envelope.
• Experience with thermal design techniques.
• Demonstrated success working in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with the full V-Model  design cycle, from requirement capture through to design verification.

Desired experience

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience designing for space environments including radiation SEE/TID impacts and mitigation.
• VHDL/Verilog design experience – to create CPLD/FPGA designs, including test bench validation.
• Ability to write Python scripts (or similar lower-level scripting) to aid testing and investigation.
• Design experience with ASIC designs.
• Experience designing rigid-flex PCBs and general electro-mechanical design familiarity
• RF knowledge.
• Experience with  EMC (Immunity and Emissions), Environmental  (temp, shock, vibration), Reliability (MTBF, MTTF), FMECA.