Electus Recruitment Solutions
Principal Electronics Engineer
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Principal Electronics Engineer
Take ownership of complex electronic designs across a varied portfolio of technology projects. Broaden your expertise in analogue, digital and RF systems while working from concept through to production. Build your career in a role that offers genuine technical variety and continuous learning.
What You Will Be Doing
- Own the technical delivery of complex electronic designs from concept definition through to production release
- Lead the development of analogue, digital, RF and mixed-signal hardware for advanced sensing, instrumentation and embedded processing applications
- Define architecture, component selection and design approaches to meet technical, commercial and manufacturing objectives
- Review and approve schematics, PCB layouts, test strategies and engineering documentation to ensure quality and compliance with best practice
- Work directly with customers and project stakeholders to shape requirements, manage technical risk and communicate progress
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across project teams
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering methods, design standards and development processes
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Your Experience
- Extensive experience using Altium Designer for complex schematic capture and multilayer PCB design
- Strong background in high-density mixed-signal hardware incorporating high-speed digital and RF circuitry
- Detailed understanding of RF design principles, impedance control, grounding strategies, EMC and signal integrity considerations
- Experience developing embedded hardware platforms for DSP, software defined radio or advanced sensing applications
- Demonstrable success delivering products through design, prototyping, verification, manufacture and production support
- Ability to lead technical reviews, mentor engineers and communicate effectively with customers and multidisciplinary stakeholders
Essential Requirements
- Degree in Electronic Engineering or a related discipline
- Extensive experience leading electronic hardware development within a product development, consultancy or research-led environment
- Strong analogue, digital and RF design expertise across complex electronic systems
- Proven track record of taking products from concept through to manufacture and deployment
- Experience providing technical leadership, design authority or mentoring within multidisciplinary engineering teams
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Salary
£50-85k per annum dependent upon experience
Benefits and Balance
Rewards extend beyond pay with:
- Flexible working hours to support work-life balance
- Private medical cover for additional peace of mind
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Access to an electric car scheme
Where You Will Work
Somerset (full time on-site due to the secure nature of the work)
Due to the nature of work at our client's site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens who can obtain SC clearance.
This is a permanent role.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high-technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.
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