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Lead Hardware Design Engineer
This is a senior opportunity for a hardware design engineer with deep high-reliability electronics experience who is ready to take on technical leadership and progress into a Hardware Manager role.
As part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, this role will focus on developing FPGA/ASIC-based telecommunications payloads for a variety of applications, while managing complex hardware development activities.
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The successful hardware design engineer will take ownership of the hardware product development lifecycle, including specification, design, testing, detailed circuit design, schematic capture, component selection and electronic simulation.
Essential Skills
- 10+ years’ hardware design experience
- Experience working with high-reliability electronics
- Leadership skills
- High-speed digital design
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Desirable Skills
- RF design and validation
- FPGAs
- Radiation effects and mitigation
- DC/DC power supply design
- Environmental, thermal, safety and EMI/EMC standards
Position: Lead Hardware Design Engineer
Salary: £85k–£100k, potentially more for the right person
Key Skills: High-speed design
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