Senior Electronics Engineer
Marlow – 4 days pw on site, 1 day at home
Copello are working with a defence client who are looking for an Electronics Engineer to join there Avionics Business Unit who are responsible for designing, developing and supporting a portfolio of products. We are looking for electronics engineer to bring there experience of electronics circuit design and development to projects within this portfolio. The successful candidate will have a systems thinking mind-set, coupled with extensive knowledge of complex product development.
Key Responsibilities
* Take ownership for the design and development of electronic sub-systems for the aerospace and defence market
* Research, design, develop and prototype electronic solutions in support of product development.
* Characterise, test and down-select components for performance and cost.
* Schematic capture of mixed signal circuit Design (Analogue, RF and Digital) using Altium or similar.
* Test, characterisation and verification of prototype designs
* Circuit simulation using LT Spice, Agilent ADS
* Develop, write and deploy software to aid evaluation of electronic devices or automate test equipment using C# or similar.
* Provide inputs to the team to ensure designs meet requirements for manufacture utilising DFx and/or lean concepts.
* Use various laboratory equipment such as VNAs, RF Spectrum Analyser and Oscilloscopes etc to conduct measurements.
* Prepare documentation such as Technical Reports, Production Test Schedules etc
Competencies
* Experience in design of RF, High Speed digital or Power Supply electronics modules
* Good knowledge of current RF technologies including – low noise receiver design, RF sampling ADCs and DACs, PLL/Synthesisers, digital attenuators, receiver protectors, power amplifier and lumped-element circuit design.
* Knowledge of RF Antenna Systems and awareness of Phase Array Antennas.
* Knowledge of GPS and its vulnerabilities would be advantageous but not essential.
* Knowledge of common interface busses such as SPI, I2C and PMBus would be advantageous.
* Experience of deriving and capturing system level requirements from high level customer requirements
* Experience in Project life-cycle delivery from bids to operation.
* Experience of design or manufacturing in the aviation industry.
Qualifications and required experience
* C experience in an embedded environment
* Experience of embedded processors and real-time operating systems
* Experience of interfacing with hardware devices and peripherals
* Solid understanding of software development life-cycles and processes
* Experience of requirement analysis, software design and software architecture
* Experience with source control tools such as SubVersion and Git
* Behavioural: self-starting, adaptable, problem solving
* C++ experience in an embedded environment
* Object Oriented Design and Programming experience
* Familiarity with desktop application, GUI/event-based design
Please note SC Clearance is required for this role
If you feel you have the skills and experience please apply now and we will be in touch with a further chat