Senior Hardware Engineer Job in Oxford, Southern UK
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join a technically groundbreaking organisation based in Oxfordshire.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team developing high speed digital and analogue electronics systems through the full product development cycle; contribute to and lead technically demanding projects; and integrate effectively with a talented multi-disciplinary team of like-minded people.
The role would ideally suit a motivated individual who enjoys seeing the fruits of their labours in the market place, used by real people in real situations.
Responsibilities
- Develop designs from initial concept to completed functioning prototype so that product ideas are developed as quickly as possible into designs that can be manufactured, tested and maintained.
- Design circuits and draw schematics so that accurate circuit information is available to the PCB designers.
- Work with the PCB design team to ensure that the PCB design will perform as specified
- Work with the FPGA design team to complete the design.
- Undertake testing and debugging of the design, ensuring that the design meets the design specification
- Provide all necessary information so to originate accurate and complete manufacturing information.
- Where appropriate provide support to the Service and Production departments to resolve design and other component issues.
- Where appropriate, aid with system design and identify problems with both hardware and software, at the system level.
Key Qualifications and Experiences
Essential
- Good honours degree in electronic engineering or a related subject.
- Ten years professional experience in hardware related projects.
- Recent experience designing and debugging high speed digital circuit boards with current generation CPUs and FPGAs
- Experience in board level design and developing significant hardware components.
- Experience of working with high speed serial signals (GHz+) (e.g. Serdes GIG-E)
- Familiarity with software and hardware tools and off-the-shelf packages that can be utilized for system development.
- Able to work with various kinds of hardware and to assist with software integration.
- The ability to quickly translate user requirements or technical propositions into practical designs.
Desirable
- Experience with SHARC DSPs
- Experience of analogue audio design
- Experience of power supply design
- Familiarity with signal integrity issues and simulation
- Experience of design for EMC compliance.
- Familiarity with Altera and/or Xilinx devices and tools.
- Tenacious problem solver with ability to challenge current practice
- Highly focused, self-motivated with an interest in extending their knowledge and skills
- Enjoys working in a team environment
- Analytical and keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills
- An interest in audio and/or music would be an advantage
Person specification
- Tenacious problem solver with ability to challenge current practice
- Highly focused, self-motivated with an interest in extending their knowledge and skills
- Enjoys working in a team environment
- Analytical and keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills
- An interest in audio and/or music would be an advantage