Senior Electronics Design Engineer

Warwick
1 month ago
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We have a fantastic new opportunity for a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to join a state-of-the-art R&D company based in the West Midlands, easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton, Leicester, Warwick, Banbury. You will be working across a plethora of different cutting-edge development projects across industries such as Medical Devices, Consumer Electronics, Automation, Wireless Communications, IoT, Robotics, autonomous tech, etc.
You will join the friendly and supportive Electronics and Systems group involved in the development of electronics products from concept to delivery. Some of the technologies developed have revolutionise industry, especially within medical devices. In return you can expect a very competitive salary, excellent benefits package, first class R&D facilities, lunchtime finish on a Friday and most importantly a friendly work environment which makes going to work a pleasure. Staff retention levels are very high.

Senior Electronics Design Engineer requirements:

Degree in electronic engineering or physics or a relevant discipline.
Recent and relevant experience designing and developing board-level electronic hardware including microcontroller-based systems, digital peripherals, power supplies and analogue circuits.
Modelling and simulation, PCB layout and prototyping.
Experience of the complete electronics development lifecycle and the application of rigorous quality management system.
Experience working as a Technical Lead / Project Manager / Mentor would be beneficial.
Experience implementing low-power connectivity solutions such as Bluetooth, ZigBee or Wi-Fi beneficial. Skills List: Analog / Digital / Firmware / Circuit design / PCB layout / power supplies / Analogue / firmware / prototyping / microcontrollers / FPGA / RF / Cadence / MATLAB / USB / System Design / VHDL / BOM / Ethernet / CPU / Bluetooth / DFM / EMC / DSP / Power Electronics / Schematic Design
Salary: circa £50k - £65k + benefits
Vacancy Location: West Midlands (Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton, Leicester, Warwick, Banbury, etc)

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