Digital Electronics Lead Hardware Engineer

Location Stevenage
Job Type Contract
Salary Up to £79.73 per hour + (Inside IR35, PAYE & LTD rates available)
Reference JO-2211-624_1667553334
Duration 12 months

Job Summary

This role will be known internally as a "Hardware Responsible Engineer" for flight equipment. The role entails hardware aspects of requirements management, design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses. In addition the successful candidate will:

  • Able to interpret circuit board designs accommodating multiple FPGA / ASICs and high speed ADCs / DACs.
  • Interface with experts in other departments (e.g. Mechanical, PCB layout).
  • Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.
  • Note - this is not an RF design position
  • Candidates must hold active SC-level security clearance to be considered for this opportunity.

Job Profile

Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities:

  • Coordination of technical elements for a Digital PCB based equipment, working with and overseeing the work of design engineers in the same functional team
  • Review circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints
  • Consider switching speeds, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission
  • Review detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMEA
  • Interface with internal support functions e.g. Thermal and Mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement
  • Lead engineering investigations, troubleshooting and problem resolution activity

Skills

Essential:

High speed Digital electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection, board bring up and related analyses.

Desirable:

  • Mentor DxDesigner.
  • Requirements management (DOORS).

Experience

Essential:

Lifecycle experience of a Digital equipment - design / manufacture / test.

Desirable:

Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years.

Standards/accreditations/methodologies - ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards.

Digital interface experience, Spacewire, SerDes, CAN, 1553, etc.

Education & Training

Degree level, electronics engineering or similar (e.g. physics).

Guidant Global (Airbus) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.