Senior Hardware Engineer
Randstad UK
Bracon Ash, United Kingdom
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 65KJob location
Bracon Ash, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Computer-Aided Design
Altium Designer
Analogue Electronics
Firmware
Failure Mode Effects Analysis
Hardware Design
LTspice
Matlab
Release Management
Schematic Capture
Strategies of Testing
Pcb Layout
Job description
- Design & Develop: Focus on power electronics hardware including DC-DC converters, traction inverters, battery chargers, and associated control/interface circuitry.
- Full Lifecycle Support: Take hardware from concept and schematic design through PCB layout, prototyping, validation, and production transfer.
- Robust Engineering: Apply structured methods (WCA, FMEA, DFM) to ensure designs are robust against environmental factors, tolerances, and EMC effects.
- Collaboration: Work with firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to optimize production yield, assembly robustness, and test strategies.
Requirements
- Power Electronics Design: Strong experience in power electronics hardware design within automotive, industrial, motorsport, or electrification sectors.
- Topologies & Circuits: Solid understanding of three-phase inverter bridges, bidirectional DC-DC converters, and analogue circuits (sensing, filtering, protection).
- Manufacturing Focus: Strong knowledge of PCB fabrication, assembly constraints, component tolerances, and production release processes.
- Technical Tools: Experience with simulation tools (eg, LTspice, MATLAB) and electronic CAD tools for schematic capture (preferably Altium Designer).
About the company
Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.