Electronics Hardware Engineer

• Develop the architecture of electronic systems.
• Perform circuit design, analysis, and documentation.
• Conduct debugging, verification, and validation testing.
• Take ownership of designs, providing solutions to challenges as they arise.
• Document designs to ensure long-term product support.
• Identify areas for improvement in tools, techniques, and processes.

• 5-10 years of experience in automotive or a similar industry.
• Strong foundation in electronic hardware design and embedded systems.
• Experience designing products for manufacture.
• Familiarity with working to deadlines and strong communication skills.

Highly Desirable Experience:

• Architectural development of electronic systems.
• Circuit design, including H-bridge solenoid, motor, and inductive load interfaces, high and low-side MOSFET switches, and current sensing.
• Microcontroller interfaces and communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, LIN, and Ethernet.
• Power supply design (linear and switched-mode).
• Analogue circuit simulation and performance prediction.
• PCB design, layout, and routing.
• Design for automotive environments, reliability, and qualification (e.g., EMC and environmental testing).

Desirable Skills:

• Functionally safe hardware development.
• Reliability analysis (e.g., FMEA) and design for manufacture and test.
• Writing simple hardware test software.
• Qualification in electronics engineering or a closely related discipline.

Tools & Lab Experience:

• Schematic capture and PCB layout software.
• SPICE circuit simulation tools.
• Use of lab equipment (oscilloscopes, signal generators, DMMs, etc.).
• Soldering of through-hole and SMT components.

Our client is a global leader in the automotive industry, offering hardware and engineering services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. The electronics division, based in Cambridge, UK, focuses on developing cutting-edge automotive electronics hardware and software. By combining expertise in suspension systems, vehicle dynamics, mechanisms, and mechatronics, the company delivers complete solutions, such as active suspension, active aero, and powered door products, to its customers.