Hardware Electronics Engineer

Hardware Electronics Engineer
Location: Fareham, 4 days on site per week
Duration: 6 months initial
Rate: up to £70 ph Umbrella Inside IR35

Position Summary
Develop and implement safety critical hardware electronic solutions to meet programme requirements across the whole development lifecycle in accordance with customer requirements, legislation, human factors and business needs. Be responsible for the control of own work to meet agreed technical, quality, process, cost and schedule requirements.

Job Duty
Product Hardware Development:
• To interpret system requirements into clear unambiguous hardware design requirements and to develop Hardware Development Plans to identify workflow.
• To design, analyse, commission and verify analogue and digital circuits in accordance with defined requirements specifications including cost and reliability targets.
• To document design activities, ensuring traceability of design to requirements, whilst also ensuring adherence to relevant project, company or regulatory standards and processes.
• Work collaboratively with systems, safety, software and mechanical engineers to ensure that hardware level requirements have been met and to overcome trade-offs or problems identified in the design
• Contribute to the development of system architectures considering alternative concepts and trade studies in order to determine evidence led preferred solutions.
• Provide support to production during introduction of new products.
• Provide support for component obsolescence issues.

Product Hardware Verification & Qualification:
• To plan, generate, perform and validate results of hardware verification plans and procedures.
• To support hardware qualification activities and
• To specify, design, commission and verify equipment test solutions to support hardware verification & qualification activities and production.

Key Skillset
Essential
• Hardware Electronic design Knowledge is some or all of:
o Design of micro-processor circuitry
o Design of digital interface circuitry such as DDR2/DDR3/SPI/I2C/MIPI
o Design of analogue signal measurement/conditioning circuitry such as amplifiers, filters and signal sampling/conversion
o Design of low voltage power supplies and power switching techniques
• Design for EMC/EMI
• Design for lightning and voltage transient protection
• Ability to drive and manage PCB layout through sub-contract.
• Knowledge of keeping engineering documentation up to date and under configuration control.
• Knowledge of de-rating, reliability predication analysis and Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Knowledge of electronic hardware verification including generation and executing of test procedures using standard proprietary test equipment.
• Knowledge of developing high integrity designs, preferably safety critical.
• Knowledge and ability to work within hardware development lifecycle processes.
• Willingness to engineer safety critical products in an industry that is highly regulated and where engineering vigour in valued.
• CAS 703 Q-Pulse 4

Desirable
• Knowledge using Cadence OrCAD schematic capture, Allegro PCB Editor, pSpice
• Knowledge in documenting designs in preparation for formal qualification / certification
• Knowledge with TI Hercules family of safety microcontrollers
• Knowledge with NXP iMX6 family of microprocessors
• Knowledge with designs using MEMS sensors
• Knowledge with designs using Optical sensors or Optical displays.
• Awareness of RTCA DO-254 (EUROCAE ED-80) & RTCA DO-160 (EUROCAE ED-14)
• Awareness of Avionic data buses such as ARINC-429, MIL-1553, AFDX
• Awareness of embedded software to facilitate HW/SW integration
• Awareness of simple firmware to facilitate HW/firmware integration
• Awareness of National Instruments LabView
• Awareness of JTAG testing
• Awareness of lean design techniques