Senior Product Design Engineer

We are looking for engineers with “T-shaped skill sets”, i.e. with particular engineering specialisms but being comfortable working in the broader electronic / software / product design environment. We have around 12 engineers in these areas (within a total of 65 employees) so teams are small and flexibility is important.

Tasks

As a product design engineer we would expect you to spend most of your time working in:

• Mixed low-frequency analogue and digital electronic circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototype testing, manufacture, test and integration, including microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs and, increasingly, power electronics;
• Product and mechanical design for user experience and manufacturing, including prototyping and small- to mid-volume processes; and
• Verification and type testing to international standards, with external laboratories.

Our development teams’ broader skills should be comfortable working around:

• Software for embedded microprocessors (for RTOS, Linux and bare metal), PCs and web, with a variety of tools, frameworks and support infrastructures, including virtualisation and containers;
• Overall system architecture and design, with automated build, integration and test;
• A variety of team and stream management practices built typically on iterative, agile patterns;
• Specification, implementation and verification of advanced multi-layer communication protocols; and
• Applications needing an understanding of power systems, their control, interfacing measurements and actuation including transformers and electromagnetics (VTs and CTs), and design of control algorithms.

For a senior engineering role it is expected that you will:

• Take on a technical leadership role within a team (formal or informal) for the development of a product;
• Guide, develop and mentor more junior engineers and apprentices.

Requirements

Qualifications. You have a degree or equivalent knowledge in product design, embedded systems design, or electrical, electronic or software engineering.

Essential requirements. You have demonstrated capability and experience (backed up by theoretical knowledge) in:

• Reading, understanding and communicating through conversation, technical specifications and drawings;
• Working both collaboratively and individually on new and existing products;
• Analogue electronic design;
• Writing and running code on embedded microcontrollers such as PIC16, DSPIC, TI OMAP or SOM in C/C++ or other language;
• Designing products that comply with various national and international safety, EMC and other standards;
• Using commercial PCB design software such as Altium, simulating and prototyping to ensure the design works first time;
• Estimating work and delivering on commitments; planning and managing your own time; and
• Taking a product through its entire life cycle.

Desirable. The following capability and experience would be an advantage:

• Basic knowledge of Power Systems Engineering
• Writing applications that run under real-time operating systems
• Electronics that measure voltages, currents, phase angles and harmonics
• Scrum as a way of working and coordinating effort
• Common control hardware and protocols such USB, CAN, RS485, SPI and SCADA protocols such as MODBUS, DNP3, IEC60870 and IEC61850
• Rapid prototyping techniques to deliver value sooner
• Full UK driving licence

We offer

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time)
• Option to buy up to 5 days additional holiday per year
• Company sick pay on completion of probation
• Pension
• Discretionary bonus scheme linked to company profits
• Life Assurance
• 24/7 Employee Helpline
• Professional membership support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised flu jabs
• Summer and Christmas parties
• Complementary fruit in our offices