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KRATOS ANALYTICAL LIMITED

Electronics Design Engineer

Manchester
Posted about 22 hours ago
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Summary of Job

This position reports to the Senior Manager Electronics. The role is based in the company's R & D Department and focuses on the development of new, sophisticated, electronic systems & subsystems. Working shoulder to shoulder with enthusiastic Physicists, Software and Mechanical Engineers, the work will encompass the full product life cycle from system design specifications through to manufacture.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible to MALDI Group Manager for specific parts of product design and working to the current Kratos quality system.
  • Ensure the company health and safety procedures are adhered to all the time, only operating equipment for which you are suitably qualified or have received suitable training.
  • Production of the specifications for new designs.
  • Detailed design and associated documentation (schematics, PCB layouts and PLD/FPGA configurations).
  • Provide the MALDI Group Manager with as accurate as possible, estimates of timescales for designs.
  • Use the Management Information Systems for creating and controlling bills of materials, drawing numbers and bought out parts.
  • Raising Manufacturing Change Notes for design changes and enhancements.
  • Raising permits and concessions as appropriate to allow production to continue.
  • The implementation of approved changes to the design.
  • Liaison with new and old suppliers both on and off site.
  • Liaison with Fitters and Test Engineers.
  • Building prototype assemblies.
  • Meet appropriate company, national and international standards in product design, e.g., ISO61010, ISO13485, 21CFR820 etc.
  • To keep up to date with available third-party components.
  • To keep up to date with design techniques of analogue and digital circuits as well as PLD/FPGA design. To raise Design Change Requests whenever problems or opportunities arise.
  • Evaluation and testing of prototype designs.
  • Investigation of problems found on existing designs in engineering, test and from field failures.
  • Provide support to the Purchasing team to evaluate new and existing suppliers.
  • Providing technical assistance and advice to colleagues as required.

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Qualifications

BSc/BEng degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience/competences) (E)

Experience (Essential/Desirable)

  • Experience in the development of XPS or MALDI Mass Spectrometer instruments, (or similar scientific or medical devices) to FDA (where applicable) and other requirements with demonstrable experience (D)
  • Experience designing both digital and analogue electronics, preferably including FPGA design skills. (E)
  • Experienced with electronic simulations, design verification(E)
  • Experience of full product life cycle from design to volume manufacture(E)
  • Experience of designing for EMC, RoHS and UL approved products is a benefit. (D)
  • Experience with component/product risk assessment and FMEA. (D)

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Job Related Aptitude and Skills

  • Good all-round electronics design skills and experience; designing embedded FPGA control and acquisition systems will be considered an advantage. (E)
  • High speed digital design, microcontroller/microprocessors, memory, timing (E)
  • Analogue design, power management, sensor interfaces, ADC/DACs, amplifiers and control. (E)
  • Schematic Capture and PCB Design Altium, Cadstar preferred. (E)
  • Communication interface design from board to board and network connectivity (E)
  • High Voltage design knowledge is an advantage(D)
  • C/C++ firmware, VHDL design and Xilinx Microblaze experience an advantage. (D)
  • Good team player (E)
  • Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or a willingness to work towards professional registration, would be an asset. (D)
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Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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