Electronic Design Engineer, Automotive cellular device

Expert Employment
Oxford Circus, London, W1C 1DE, United Kingdom
Last week
£58,000 – £75,000 pa

Salary

£58,000 – £75,000 pa

Posted
7 Apr 2026 (Last week)

A Senior to Principal Electronic Design technical lead required to take ownership of the companies electronic engineering efforts, you will report directly to the CTO and be the sole internal hardware resource.

Requirements

Automotive industry experience across power supply design, test, compliance and technical requirements.

Altium to design schematic, layout and BOM design and development.

Electronics test house process, debugging, oscilloscope, soldering, hands on skills.

Radio compliance, EMC, cellular etc.

Strong degree in Electronics

You will work on data acquisition devices that are deployed internationally on heavy vehicles and across construction supply chains providing valuable time series data fed into the cloud and processed by machine learning algorithms to drive quality and efficiency decisions.

These devices are deployed internationally and include cellular, BLE, GPS and CAN technologies.

You will run research projects leveraging custom designs, lead compliance testing and direct contracted Manufacturers on production.

The role is hybrid and requires at least 2 days in the office per week

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