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Embedded Design Engineer
Reference: BHN577590
Job details
- Start date: ASAP
- Employment type: Permanent
- Salary: £50,000 - £60,000/annum
- Date published: 25 March 2025
Job description
Buckinghamshire - Hybrid working
Applicants must hold right to work and live in UK (No Sponsorship)
Embedded Design Engineer
Job purpose:
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Embedded Design Engineer is responsible for the full product life cycle of electronic hardware design and embedded software development.
Working in close collaboration with the Applications Engineering team and Software development team, the Embedded Design Engineer has sole responsibility for the development and support of the PCB hardware and firmware, through specification, concept, design, production, service, support and obsolescence.
Requiring a self-starter who is both proficient working in a laboratory environment concepting and designing PCB hardware and firmware, as well as a development workshop working on client equipment. Strong data analysis skills would be advantageous.
Key accountabilities:
- Lead the embedded design function. Design authority for all PCB and firmware solutions for the business
- Work with the Engineering team, to ensure projects are delivered on time, on specification and are suited to the customer base
- Provide technical decision making when qualifying new/updated products or solutions
- Responsible for the Embedded lab and the equipment within
- Developing the embedded design specifications and the concepts which will deliver new products and accessories
- Designing and executing and/or delegating experiments to validate/verify new machine / control concepts
- Controlling the PCB and firmware design standards
- Maintaining and developing technical knowledge and expertise in the field of embedded design and controls
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Qualifications/education
- Degree qualified engineer, with 5 years + experience within an electronics engineering environment
- Alternatively, having attained an HNC/HND in electronics engineering
- Full UK driving licence
- Eligible to work in the UK
Experience/skills
- High level of competence in Altium and similar design systems (PCB schematic design, layout and library management)
- Strong hardware design capabilities, with a particular aptitude to power electronics and integration with other machine systems
- Embedded processors (preferably ARM Cortex M4)
- Digital / analogue (low to medium speed)
- Power supplies / dc-dc converters (3.3V to 200V)
- Solenoid actuator drivers
- Serial communications (Ethernet, USB, RS232, SPI, I2C)
- A2D, D2A
- EMC
- Proven free RTOS development experience
- Strong firmware development capability, and associated debug techniques (C, Keil IDE)
- Strong competence in other beneficial languages/tools for data processing, visualisation and analysis (e.g Python, SQL)
- Revision control system (e.g. Subversion svn)
- PCB test rig and process design
- Knowledge of a wide range of processor architectures and associated tools/compilers
- Soldering of PTH & SMD devices
- Ability to create and develop technical specifications
- PCB BOM management and revision control
Proficient in other
- Sound working knowledge of EMC
- NPI/NPD experience in an engineering/product development environment
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically competent with MS Excel and/or other data processing tools
- Ability to communicate effectively with other business functions and external customers
Non-essential but desirable requirements:
- Experience in LabVIEW
- Knowledge of project management tools and techniques
- DFM/DFA (design for manufacture/design for assembly), VA/VE, FMEA
- Knowledge of CI tools
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