Contract Electronics Design Engineer

Enterprise Recruitment Ltd

About this role

This is an initial six-month contract, with scope to extend, for an experienced Electronics Hardware Design Engineer to join a small, innovative engineering company in Southampton. The contractor will take an existing R&D prototype and turn it into electronics ready for production for a single customer project. The work covers board-level analogue and digital redesign, including drive electronics, power and microcontroller circuitry, with a strong focus on design for manufacture, cost reduction and meeting relevant standards and EMC regulations. Strong Altium Designer experience is essential, alongside analogue and digital hardware design and solid EMC knowledge.

Job Description

Contract Electronics Design Engineer

A small, innovative engineering company developing novel technology for demanding industrial applications is looking for an experienced Electronics Hardware Design Engineer to join on an initial 6 month contract, with scope to extend.

The contractor will take an existing R&D prototype and turn it into electronics that are ready for production for a single customer project. The work covers board-level analogue and digital redesign, including the drive electronics, power and microcontroller circuitry, with a strong focus on design for manufacture, cost reduction and meeting the relevant standards and EMC regulations.-

Onsite more often to get up to speed, moving to a hybrid pattern of around 3 days onsite and 2 from home.-

Requirements:
  • Analogue and digital electronic hardware design
  • Strong Altium Designer experience (essential)
  • Solid EMC knowledge, with design for manufacture experience

Desireable:
  • Ideally experience taking products from prototype through to production
  • Experience of high frequency amplifier design or STM32-based hardware would be an advantage, as would a degree in Electronic Engineering.