Avionic Design Engineer
Contract Nine Months
Farnborough
Job Description:
As part of the continuing development an opportunity has arisen for an Avionic Design engineer. Working as part of the Engineering team, contributing to the ongoing performance improvements and exploiting its capability to deliver customer solutions.
This position is focused on the development of the project's subsystems to maximise the potential of persistent flight operations in the stratosphere.
Role and Responsibilities:
Working with the lead Avionics Engineer you will be responsible for:
- Requirements specification for Avionics subsystems
- Full-lifecycle analogue and digital circuit design, for harsh thermal and radiation environments
- Electronic component selection in accordance with requirements
- Qualification and traceability against requirements
- Unit testing of Avionics system
Accountabilities:
Accountable to the Lead Avionic Engineer
Experience & Qualifications:
- The successful candidate's experience and skills will include the following:
- BSc / HNC / BEng and / or recognised aerospace based apprenticeship In electrical and electronic engineering
- Full-lifecycle analogue and digital circuit design, for harsh thermal and radiation environments
- Use of Microsemi FPGA design tools and FPGA based Signal processing including complex modulation/demodulation
- Electronic component selection in accordance with requirements.
- Experience of UAS or Space system quality standards (ECSS, DO-214, or similar).
- Experience of electronic and RF test equipment, setup and use
- Knowledge of communication theory and methods.
- Capability and experience in some (or all of the following) is desirable
- Multi-layer mixed signal PCB layout using CAE. (ALTIUM and ORCAD preferred)
- PCB manufacture and test methodology.
- Environmental testing for High Altitude/Space.
- Embedded software development (8051 or similar)
- Experience of requirements capture and management
- Ability to deliver to defined timescales, requirements and budgets.
- Capability to take a unit design from requirements through detailed design and system trade-offs to prototyping and batch production, testing and system integration.
- ESA ECSS high reliability soldering.
- Experience of UAS or Space system level design and documentation.
