Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer

Mars Recruitment
Booker, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4UQ, United Kingdom
Last month
£70,000 – £72,000 pa
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Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer | High Wycombe | Hybrid | £72,000pa plus benefits:

Are you a Senior or Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer who has a scientific or engineering mind? Would you like to own and manage the electronics hardware development of a world-leading scientific instrumentation product?

Our client has been at the forefront of technical innovation for over 50 years. Their ground-breaking products are used worldwide and as they go from strength to strength, they are looking for a Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer to join their highly talented electronics engineering team. On a day-to-day basis, your focus will be the design and development of electronics hardware for a specific product line. You will become the subject matter expert for this product, coordinating design reviews, testing to validate systems, and support the product with any customer queries.

Please note that your specific product is manufactured in Santa Barbara, so there may be some international travel to California in the US.

About you:

Ideally an Electronics or Scientific degree

Extensive practical experience in the design and development of electronics systems including analogue, digital and power supply circuitry and experience with writing embedded software both in C and assembler.

Experience with low noise electronics design and the ability to model electronic systems to predict noise performance.

Ability to write efficient, well-structured and annotated VHDL for targeting FPGAs.

Ability to simulate designs and build appropriate test harnesses. Strong debug skills and knowledge of associated tools.

Experience of designing complex SMT multilayer pcbs of 500 components or more.

Design and testing for EMC, electrical safety, reliability and minimising environmental impact.

Systems overview, with good appreciation of thermal and mechanical design issues.

Ideally - Experienced with Mentor schematic capture and pcb layout. Xilinx Vivado / Planahead. Functional test development, Embedded Linux, application level development in Windows using C# for the construction of test harnesses

Ideally – Experienced with analytical instrumentation, ARM processors, Ethernet, PIC, Zynq, Xilinx FPGA, IEEE 1394, Infineon 16x, Motor drives Our client is offering a hybrid working arrangement with 3 days in their offices and 2 days from home. There is flexible start and finish times so you can plan your day around your preferred hours.

If you’re a Senior or Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer who has worked on analytical instrumentation or similar, please get in touch for information on the client, role, products, career development, benefits etc. Please send MARS a copy of your CV or drop Lee Cherrill a linkedin connection request or contact him through the MARS Recruitment website.

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.

MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles)

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