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Electronic Design Engineer
Duration: 12 months
Rate: £81.90 per hour (Inside IR35)
Employer: Defence Marine
Location: Portsmouth
Working Days: 2-3 days per week
The Role
This is a technical role relating to the Electronic aspects of hardware design & test.
The Role Holder will:
- Generate and/or support electronic design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.
- Generate and/or support detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of engineering issues.
- Participate in all aspects of board and unit-level design and test including their interfaces with higher levels.
Typical Duties
The role holder will undertake some or all of the following tasks:
- Detailed electronic circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and liaising with PCB design teams.
- Specification of bespoke procured hardware.
- Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques, including support to EMC test houses and customer installations.
- Generate design documentation and technical reports.
- Interfacing with related disciplines.
- Assist the development of higher level system designs.
- Assist the development of technical requirement specifications.
- Support system integration activities.
- Work with embedded software and PLD engineers as necessary.
- Contribute to progress, peer, and design reviews.
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Knowledge
- Generating component level electronic designs for introduction into volume production.
- Digital design including processor interfacing, memory devices, PLD interfacing, UARTs, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, etc.
- ADC/DAC devices and techniques.
- Analogue design including op-amps, transistor-level design, control loops, and low noise techniques.
- High power techniques.
- Design proving, integration, and defect resolution.
- Gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
- Able to work within cost and timescale constraints.
Skills
Desirable Skills
- Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
- Experience of low-noise analogue techniques.
- Experience of high power techniques (kW level).
- Experience of FPGA/CPLD development.
Business Expertise
The role holder:
- Will have a good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of a design team plus an understanding of the work of the design team.
- Will have a good understanding of how own design team integrates with other parts of the product design.
- Will have an awareness of how cost and timescale constraints may impact business performance.
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Leadership
The role holder:
- Is responsible for quality of own work and safety of self.
- May be required to mentor and coach team members according to seniority of appointment.
Problem Solving
The role holder:
- Is required to make judgements based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations.
- Must assess the viability and applicability of solutions, evaluates alternatives based on an understanding of common or previous solutions to problems and analysis of factual information.
Nature of Impact
The role holder is responsible for the quality and timely delivery of own work. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.
Area of Impact
Performance of the team and/or solution is directly affected by the job, and will have an impact on other teams involved in the task or work.
Interpersonal Skills
The role holder:
- Requires good communication and diplomacy skills.
- Must understand detailed technical instructions and be able to communicate complex technical information to others.
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