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.