Digital Electronics Design Engineer

Salary: £66,000 – £72,000 per year

The Planet Group have recently been engaged by a leading Aerospace and Defence company to support their recruitment for a Digital Electronics Design Engineer in Birmingham (Solihull).

Position Overview:

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team of electronics design engineers and based within a new state-of the-art electronics design and development facility in Solihull UK.

You will be working on a range of technology, commercial and military aerospace design tasks, spanning a range of complexities, timescales and budgets.

Candidates will have Electronics design experience within the automotive, telecoms, rail, aerospace or industrial sectors. Consideration will also be given to those from medical or related safety critical backgrounds. You will be qualified to degree level within electronics or a closely related subject or have equivalent qualifications and experience to match.

The role will require involvement in both technology and new Aerospace product design. The candidate will provide technical expertise in the development life cycle of the equipment to ensure that product meets the internal, customer and certification requirements whilst providing effective guidance and direction to the various members of the design team.

Essential Technical Capabilities:

• Experience of electronic design using FPGA/Processor/Micro-Controllers,
• Experience of design analysis for hardware development,

• Experience of de-bugging controller hardware,
• Competent with requirements management, circuit simulation and design tools, for example DOORS and similar, (requirements) SPICE based or Saber, SiMetrix, EWB, TINA, Mathcad, MATLAB & Simulink, Xilinx,
• Experience of designing for communication protocols, for example CAN, ARINC & AFDX,
• Designing precision analogue and digital electronics circuits, for example, LVDTs, Resolvers, Temperature and Pressure Sensors, Solenoids & other PWM circuits,
• Design for EMC compliance,
• Good understanding of PCB layout and design for signal integrity and EMC,
• DFM, DFT & designing to cost,
• Generating and reviewing design specifications and requirements,
• Design verification, generation of test specification and reports,
• Good technical authoring skills,
• Demonstrable Time Management skills,
• A proactive style, team spirit, high energy level, and positive outlook.

Desirable Capabilities:

• Cost and time estimation,
• An understanding of BLDC and motor drive technology,
• Managing project delivery,
• Good team working capability,
• Ability to work independently,
• Experience with Mentor Graphics, Cadence design tools or similar.
• Knowledge of programming languages i.e., VHDL, Python and C is not essential but advantageous,
• Competent with PCB design and schematic capture for example, Mentor Graphics or Cadence,
• Knowledge of DO-160 / ARP4754 and designing to D0-254/EUROCAE ED-80,
• Design for operation over extended temperature ranges, -55°C to 125°C.

If you would like to find out more, please get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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