Electronic Design Engineer (Camera & Vision Systems)

ReeVR Talent
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Last week
£50 – £55 ph

Salary

£50 – £55 ph

Posted
8 Apr 2026 (Last week)

CONTRACT Electronic Design Engineer – Camera/Vision Systems (Remote contract – Outside IR35 - £50-55) (remotecontract)

I am looking for a hands-on hardware design engineer to build camera systems from the ground up for advanced sensing applications for unmanned vehicles.

Key Responsibilities

Design CMOS & LWIR (thermal) camera systems

Develop multi-layer PCBs (6 layers, controlled impedance) (core skill)

Work across digital, mixed-signal & high-speed design (MIPI, LVDS)

Interface sensors with FPGAs and frame buffer memory

Design Ethernet/USB interfaces

Support bring-up, debugging & validation

Requirements

Strong PCB design & high-speed experience

Proven camera/imaging background (CMOS LWIR essential)

Experience with FPGA (VHDL/Verilog) interfacing & Ethernet design

Desirable

CMOS experience with Teledyne/Octopus

Must have UK right to work (BPSS eligible)

If you are immediately available please send me a message or email me your cv

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