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Senior Electronics Design Engineer

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Senior Electronics Design Engineer - Kent - up to £60,000 + Benefits - Ref 1957

I am currently for a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to work for a leading engineering organisation based in Kent. Salary up to £60,000 + Benefits.

The organisation has a fantastic heritage having been in operation for nearly 50 years and they employ over 100 people. They have a fantastic reputation in the market they operate within and employ some of the best engineers within their respective disciplines.

To support with the growth of the business in line with their expansion plans as well as enabling them to continue delivering upon their projects pipelined they have the need to appoint another Senior Electronics Design Engineer on a permanent basis.

In this role as a Senior Electronics Design Engineer ,you will be responsible for the full life cycle from cradle to grave. This will involve customer interface to discuss requirements either in person or online, from here you will define the specification and then head into design. This will include PCB design, schematic capture and layout, digital and low level firmware programming of embedded systems typically in C. You will be working in a multi-disciplined team of engineers. Whilst it is a technical role, the willingness to roll your sleeves up and get hands on from time to time soldering, creating wiring looms or building prototypes will be required. The client works on a wide array of products and therefore the work is constantly varied as its customer led with maintains interest and challenge.

Essential Requirements:

At least 3 years' experience as an Electronics Design Engineer, Hardware Engineer or similar
PCB Design (Ideally Altium)
Digital
Embedded C / Firmware programmingDesirable Requirements:

Experience with Medical Devices (13485, 60601 or 62304)
FPGA
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Video processing experience
EMCThis is an incredibly exciting opportunity for a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to work for a very exciting organisation who fully support career advancement and development.

This is an immediate requirement, so assuming the opportunity is of interest, please send an updated copy of your CV or call Adam on (phone number removed)

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