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Senior Hardware Engineer – Electronics

We are exclusively partnering with an emerging technology developer based in Ely on their latest recruitment drive which will see the company double in size. A startup, in R&D stage, financially backed by a wider global organisation, that innovates and creates exceptional products, technologies and services that will improve the lives of people while collaborating with some of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Within walking distance of Ely train station this role is accessible from both London and Cambridge within 1 hour. The successful candidate will be at the centre of a high-performance R&D Team that operates under the core SCRUM principles.

Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire

Hours: 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday (option to work from home on Wednesdays)

Hourly Rate / Salary: Circa £55,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, after 3-years of successful performance, it will carry an additional 1-day of annual leave for every additional 3-years of service until the total annual leave reaches 30-days a year, Contributory Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, paid membership fees for Sports Initiatives, Performance based Share Options after 3-years of employment

Who are we?

We are Busy Bee Recruitment, an awarding-winning recruitment agency supplying both temporary and permanent staffing solutions throughout the UK to our client base spanning multiple sectors including: Sales & Marketing, Admin & Customer Service, Technical & Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing, Finance & Accountancy, Care & Education, Supply Chain & Logistics.

Duties:

* Electronics design process, schematic capture, component selection, simulation, and PCB layout

* Evaluate and introduce new technologies, new electronics laboratory requirements & certifications to improve existing facilities.

* Ensure hardware designs are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory and safety standards

* Co-ordinate early prototype builds, taking a hands-on approach to hardware design

* Design debugging and verification by taking part

* Leading the subsystem level DFMEA activities to help identify risks and suitable mitigations

* Perform requirements analysis and requirements

* Review and set requirements for firmware/FPGA engineers to produce test specifications

* Ensuring test procedures and processes are compatible with the CI of products and technologies

* Contributing to meetings through document preparation, presentations

* Estimating time and effort required for hardware (and firmware) activities and delivering to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.

* Reviewing technical proposals

* Assist with providing accurate estimates

* Define, architect, develop, document, and Test FPGA firmware

What our client is looking for from you:

* Experience as a SCRUM team member is an advantage

* 5+ years of full life cycle experience in the R&D of Commercial Products and Technologies,

* Extensive industry experience, working on the development of production-ready systems and the design of multi-layer PCB's (stack-up design)

* Electronics design in CAD (preferably Altium but also Mentor-Graphics), both schematic and layout.

* Experience with microprocessor and microcontroller designs, communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Profibus, etc), high-speed communication interfaces and buses.

* Design for EMC compliance design for manufacturing and test (DFM, DFT)

* Experience with power supply design in a mobile or low power environment, memory subsystems

* Ability to use SCRUM project management principles

Skills that are a distinct advantage:

* Experience in developing and implementing complex imaging or tomographic devices such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, etc is an advantage.

* Experience in Electromagnetic Tomography Circuit Design such as ECT, EIT, ERT, MIT, CIFT is a distinct advantage

If you have not received a response within 3-5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Busy Bee Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency for this Permanent vacancy