Role 1:- Electronics/Electrical Design Engineer – to £45k

The Role:  The qualities of initiative and a high degree of self-motivation are essential. Interaction within a multi-disciplined team environment makes effective communication extremely important. A high level of personal responsibility is required to succeed in this position: satisfaction and professional pride being derived from successfully completing a quality job.

Duties include:-

Generation of detailed documentation for specifications, test reports and production documentation
Circuit simulation
Schematic entry
Support of production and test departments

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

A solid knowledge of electronics (digital and analogue) and electromagnetic circuits is required, plus experience of the design of circuits for harsh operating systems (i.e. EMC, temperature, vibration).
The role requires the ability to conceptualise a packaged solution, select components and design suitable circuits and PCB layouts, liaise with mechanical and software engineers to produce a final design suitable for manufacture, and de-bug and commission prototype and production parts including performance and type approval testing.

Experienced in the complete development cycle, from writing specifications, schematic design, assisting PCB layout, BOM creation and type approval testing.

Minimum of 2 years industrial experience.

Experience of power electronics and RF design would be beneficial.

Good degree in Electronics Engineering or related subject.

Role 2:- Firmware / R&D Engineer – to £40k

The Component Research and Development team is a newly formed department that is responsible for developing ground-breaking sensors and other high performance components. The team will work closely with teams within the organisation, customers and academic partners.

The successful candidate will work within the CRD team to design and develop innovative products and solutions for challenging applications and harsh environments.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Generate project proposals.
• Generate software design documentation.
• Develop firmware for 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers.
• Test firmware on evaluation/prototype/production hardware.
• Develop graphical user interfaces and test scripts.
• Research and evaluate technologies.
• Generate test reports.
• Plan and report on status of projects.

Working in a small R&D team you will be expected to assist with other tasks undertaken by the team whilst working on various concurrent projects and meeting specified timescales.

You: As the sole software based member of the team you will be accountable for all software related subjects. For each project a software engineer from another department will be assigned for review purposes. To be successful in this role you will network with other software engineers within the company.

Around 60% this role will be focused on writing code for microcontrollers and debugging code/hardware, 20% on research and evaluation of technologies and the remaining 20% on creating GUIs and test scripts.

 Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Essential Criteria

Minimum of 3 years programming experience in C for software/hardware interfacing.

Minimum of 3 years experience creating graphical user interfaces and test programs using C-derived or other languages.

Minimum of an upper second class in either a software or electronics engineering degree.

Experience in implementing CAN, SPI, I2C and RS232 communication protocols.

Analytical problem solving skill.

Role 3:- Electronics / R&D Engineer to £35k

The Component Research and Development team is a newly formed department that is responsible for developing ground-breaking sensors and other high performance components. The team will work closely with teams within the organisation, customers and academic partners.

The successful candidate will work within the CRD team to design and develop innovative products and solutions for challenging applications and harsh environments.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Generate project proposals
• Generate design documentation
• Generate schematics
• Work with the in-house PCB layout team to generate Gerber files for PCB production
• Test firmware and hardware on evaluation/prototype/production units
• Research and evaluate technologies
• Generate test reports
• Plan and report on status of projects

Working in a small R&D team you will be expected to assist with other tasks undertaken by the team whilst working on various concurrent projects and meeting specified timescales.

You:  You will have a wide ranging electronics knowledge. To be successful in this role you will require passion to explore, learn and implement. Must be able to demonstrate you are capable of solving problems and working independently.

Around 60% this role will be focused on research, evaluation of technologies and carrying out tests, 20% on design and development work and the remaining 20% on generating documents.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Essential Criteria

Minimum of 1 year in a similar role.

Minimum of an upper second class in an electronics engineering degree.

Experience in designing microcontroller based electronics.

Experience in implementing CAN, SPI, I2C and RS232 communication protocols.

Electronics debugging skills.

Experience in working with PIC microcontrollers and programming tools.

Experience in using oscilloscopes, signal generators, digital multimeters, impedance analysers and logic analysers.

Analytical problem solving skill.

Contact

Shawn Donovan
Mayflower Recruitment
Office: +44(0) 118 987 1133
Mobile: +44(0) 7515 394 899 (anytime)