Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Posted 12 April by Premier Engineering
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Northampton , Northamptonshire
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Posted by Premier Engineering
Job Title: Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Location: Northamptonshire
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 per annum
Hybrid working
British Citizen or ability to obtain required security clearance
No Sponsorship is available

Company Overview & Job Title:
Due to ongoing success, development and exciting growth, a well renowned successful engineering organization located in Northamptonshire who specialise in the Security, Defence, Aviation & Aerospace industry sectors have a new opening to recruit for a brand new Senor Hardware Design Engineer who is proficient in Electronics Hardware Design to join the team and business.

Salary, hybrid and right to work:
The salary on offer for the Senior Hardware Design Engineer is £50,000 - £65,000 per annum, plus an annual bonus of 3-6%. Hybrid working of 3 days onsite and 2 days WFH is available. The Senior Hardware Design Engineer will need be a British Citizen or have ability to obtain required security clearance.

Senior Hardware Design Engineer job role:
The successful Senior Hardware Design Engineer will join and work as part of an innovative vibrant Hardware engineering team who are constantly designing and developing excellent highly advanced engineering products. The Senior Hardware Design Engineer will have the opportunity to work across multiple number of exciting markets for Security, Defence, Aviation & Aerospace as you will be involved in the full product lifecycle incorporating requirements for design, test, release and support of new Electronics Harwdare for digital, analogue, PCB Design and RF designs. 

Senior Hardware Design Engineer Key Skills:
  • 5-7 minimum years of industry experience
  • Proficient in hardware and electronics
  • Demonstratable experience of completed designs and self-sufficiency
  • Electronics Circuit Design (analogue & digital)
  • Digital circuit design including microprocessors
  • Analogue circuit design such as power supplies
  • Experience of PCB Design, Schematic Capture & Layout
  • Knowledge and experience microcontrollers & microprocessors
  • EMC and CE marking experience
  • Good team player and communication skills
  • Can work well as part of a multi-disciplined engineering team
  • Self-motivated and enthusiastic
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills
  • Capable of handling responsibilities independently
Bonus nice to have skills:
  • RF Expertise - Experience in the 20MHz to 10GHz range
  • Experience or an understanding of using the following components in schematic design and layout; mixers, splitters, diplexers, LNAs, VCO’s, PLL’s, PCB mount filters (SAW/ceramic/lumped element)
  • Experience of designing filters (lumped element/planar), downconverters, upconverters, power amplifiers
  • FPGA Experience
  • High-speed digital circuit design - FPGAs with external memory and interfaces such as ethernet so experience of designing schematics and completing layouts aligned with this would be beneficial.
  • Network Interfaces & Peripherals – SPI, I2C, USB, UART, RS232/485, Ethernet
  • Comfortable selecting power supply devices (switchers/buck-boost/Linea reg etc)
  • Experience of digital or uProcessors and MCU’s
  • Embedded firmware skills used to exercise and test hardware designs.
  • Experience of designing electronic circuits and sub-assemblies for use in military or airborne applications.
  • Experience of designing for and test/verification MIL-STD’s and DO160.
  • Test and verification using tools such as JTAG Boundary Scan Testing
  • Experience of test equipment such as oscilloscopes, analysers and signal generators
  • Industry experience - Security, Defence, Aviation & Aerospace
Benefits Package - 40 hours per week, an annual bonus between 3 and 6%, matched pension at 5%, life cover and death in service, 25 days holiday plus you can plus or sell up to 5 further days.

If you’re interested in the Senior Hardware Design Engineering role then please apply now with your updated CV or call Frank Kanjanda at Premier Group at and for further information about the role and company.

Required skills

  • Electronics, Hardware, Electronics Design, PCB Design, RF, FPGA, Power Electronics, Analogue Design, Digital Electronics, Embedded Software

Reference: 52467362

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