Job Description
Please note, this role is inside IR35.
Job Summary
*Hardware engineer for flight equipment, including the hardware aspects of requirements management, detailed design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses.
*Able to interpret circuit board designs accommodating multiple FPGA / ASICs and high speed ADCs / DACs.
*Support to manufacture and test - may require travel to Airbus in Portsmouth.
*Interface with many experts in other departments (e.g. radiation, EMC).
*Customer interface on technical issues.
*Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.
Job Profile
Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities -
*Produce digital electronic board specifications, from product or architecture requirements
*Define interfaces and digital parameters.
*Consider switching speeds, pulses, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission
*Define performance criteria and define how to prove validation and verification of performance with test strategy.
*Produce circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints.
*Detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMECA/FMEA
*Support detailed design in CAD/CAM or VHDL implementation on component/ equipment/ mechanical/VHDL level in accordance with engineering design rules.
*Interface with internal support functions e.g. radiation, thermal and mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement
*External customer and supplier interface on technical presentations and issues
Skills
Essential:
High speed electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection and related analyses.
Desirable:
Mentor DxDesigner.
Requirements management (DOORS) and SoC / RFD management.
Experience
*Lifecycle experience of digital equipments - design / manufacture / test, including customer interfacing.
*Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years
*Hardware used - debug and test validation of designs
*Software used - schematic capture, layout and simulation tools (e.g. Mentor Expedition)
*Standards/accreditations/methodologies - ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards
Desirable:
Space industry experience.
Experience of team leadership, mentoring junior design engineers
Education & Training
Degree level education, electronics engineering or similar (e.g. physics) desirable but not essential
Additional Information
Contract role
Duration: 6 months
Inside IR35
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
