Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer - £55-65K + bonus – Cambridge

A client of nGenium is seeking an experienced generalist engineer with an electronics focus. The ideal electronics engineer will have a strong background in electronics and the surrounding areas, such as software and mechanical integration. This role involves working with and within a team to develop and integrate a complex, high-tech system with challenging performance targets, including development of new electronic designs and modelling and investigation of the performance of the whole system, from software to mechanical, where high-performance electronics fits somewhere in the middle.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-performance electronics within tight constraints from other components for the system
• Manage a small electronic engineering team
• Understand, troubleshoot, and optimize a complex, sensitive instrument.
• Work with software and mechanical engineers in the course of product development and maintenance

Must haves:

• Demonstrated professional experience designing and debugging electronics in the context a whole system
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• A proactive and results-driven approach to work

Desirable skills: 

• Familiarity with PCB design in Altium

• Familiarity with embedded software, bare metal and/or embedded linux

• Familiarity with C, C++, Rust, and/or Python

• Experience with low-noise analog electronics design

• Experience with experimental data analysis for identifying sources of error in a system