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Job Description
Position: Electronics Design Engineer
Salary: Up to 55K DOE & Company Bonus
Full time: 5 days per week/flexible working hours
Location: Norfolk area - Office based
Benefits: Full BUPA health care, enhanced pension scheme, death in service benefits
Relocation: Assistance for relocation to Norfolk area
Residency: Existing right to work and live in the UK
About the Company
They are a leading provider of high-quality innovative sonar technology solutions for survey applications spanning inland waterways, inshore, nearshore and offshore environments to full ocean depth. They specialise in the design, development, manufacture, and commissioning of advanced side scan, bathymetry, and sub-bottom profiling sonar-systems. They have a global presence through their network of 50 channel partners who represent us in over 70 countries. They have manufactured subsea sensors and equipment over four decades and today continue to develop and grow the company having recently been recognised for the King's Award for Enterprise for their International Trade as well as being included in the first UK Innovation Report for 2024 of the most 500 innovative companies. All employees receive:
* Excellent remuneration
* 25 days holiday allowance plus statutory bank holidays
* Flexitime with the ability to take an additional day's leave each month
* Private medical insurance for family
* Worldwide Travel insurance for employee + partner
* Pension with matched contributions up to 8%
* Death in service benefit
* Sick pay
* Bike to work scheme
* Employee assistance scheme
* Free electric vehicle charging on site
* Annual bonus based on Company profit
* Wellbeing events.
About the Role
You will be part of a design team working on their next generation of sonar instrumentation.
Main responsibilities:
* Develop and enhance electronic SONAR products in line with target product specifications
* Creation of Schematics & multi-layer PCB designs, verified by electronic modelling / simulation and testing
* Testing, defect failure analysis / root cause analysis and repair of existing systems
* Conducting design reviews at key stages of design & development and test
* Collaborating as part of the team, submitting designs for review and providing peer review input to other engineers' designs
* Producing and maintaining product documentation, including detailed BoMs, Gerbers, validating fabrication & engineering drawings, writing production assembly guides, test procedures and user manuals
* Performing new product evaluations and reviews including acoustic measurements to ensure that product meets or exceeds their specification
* Collaborating across all teams within the company, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Test, Quality
* Providing technical product support to staff and worldwide customers on site or remotely. This may require occasional travel within UK and overseas to support them
* Working with 3rd parties during design, prototyping and manufacturing
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
* Degree or equivalent qualifications or experience in electrical and electronic engineering
* A minimum of 3 years' experience designing electronics products and embedded pc systems
* Design and testing mixed signal products that include SOC, FPGA's, control & logic systems, switching power supplies, analogue amplifiers, isolated systems and transducer power driver stages
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
* C/C++, VHDL and associated tools such as GIT
* Altium Designer (schematic, PCB, component generation, SPICE simulation)
* Communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, Ethernet, IP (TCP/UDP/ICMP), RS- 232, JTAG, NMEA, both at the low level and high level
* Systems operating at 400V DC
* MATLAB for signal processing
* Digital data acquisition systems and DSP techniques (down-sampling, mixing, various filter types, etc.)
* Laboratory test equipment including, but not limited to Logic Analysers, Oscilloscopes, Power Analysers, Spectrum Analysers, Active Loads, Multi-meters, Hot air and Through Hole assembly and repair tools.
If you do not have all the desirable knowledge /skills/experience, they would still be interested in talking with you.
