Embedded Hardware Engineer

Technical responsibilities

• As a member of the hardware team, your role will be to design, verify, commission and productise board-level embedded hardware for Hanwha’s Phased Array Antenna products.
• To take hardware designs from requirements flow-down, generating hardware specifications, schematics though to PCB layout, bring-up, commissioning, supporting integration into platforms.
• Perform power supply and timing calculations, signal integrity simulations and design verification at a board assembly and sub-system level to ensure reliable designs.
• Conduct hardware design reviews when appropriate to ensure quality designs.
• Collaborate with the other members of the hardware, software, systems and mechanical teams to ensure effective collaboration across the development programme.
• Design and support of commissioning code, hardware bring-up and handover for software integration. Liaise with the manufacturing team for production build packs for manufacture.
• Ensure the products are designed for EMC, Environmental and other regulatory approvals and meet the requirements for volume manufacturing (DFT/DFM).

Organisational responsibilities

• Contribute to the company’s long-term goals by delivering right first-time designs.
• Ability to deliver on-time and build good working relationships with cross-functional team members and external departments. Contribute to design reviews when required.
• Understand the trade‐offs between performance, cost, manufacturability, and user experience.
• Self-motivated and able to take ownership of problems and finding solutions.
• Good communication skills and team working. Flexible can-do attitude.

Essential qualifications and skills

• A good first or upper 2^nd Class degree (BEng/MEng) in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from a leading University.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a relevant industry working on embedded product developments in the data communications, automotive or aerospace industry.
• Competent in Embedded Digital Design from concept, specification and design through to software and systems integration, test and manufacture.
• Good, embedded design skills using the ARM Cortex family of MCUs, an understanding of Ethernet.
• Familiar with interfacing to external memories and peripherals such as SPI Flash, SDRAM, SPI, I2C, Ethernet MAC/PHYs using industry standard interfaces.
• Low voltage point-of-load power supply design (switch mode and linear). Power estimates. Familiarity with simulation tools and methods for transient analysis.
• Competent with schematic capture tools especially Altium Designer Schematics/layout and Tools for SI simulations.
• Appreciation of DFM/DFT for volume manufacture.
• Knowledge of impedance-controlled PCB layouts for digital and mixed signal designs, defining stackups and constraints. Understanding of high-speed layout techniques.
• Experience of embedded C/C++ for MCU initialisation and peripheral drivers to support board bring up and commissioning. Experience of a high-level scripting language (e.g. Python).
• Ability to liaise with PCB layout and Manufacturing / NPI engineers.
• Knowledge and awareness of developing and implementing test plans and procedures.
• Creative, accurate, methodical with good problem-solving abilities.
• Practical experience in the use of test equipment such as scopes, logic analysers, signal generators.
• Good practical skills in electronics, soldering and mechanical assembly skills.

Desirable

• An understanding of the product development process preferably for high-reliability environments, namely aerospace, defence or marine products.
• Awareness of the product approvals process to meet regulatory approvals (emissions, susceptibility, environmental) for aerospace or automotive markets.
• The ability to analyse the trade‐offs between performance, manufacturability and cost.