Hardware Engineer

Platform Recruitment Limited
Edinburgh, UK
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Internship / Graduate position
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£30,000.0 - £40,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Board Bringup C (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Altium Designer Software Applications Automation of Tests Software Debugging Digital Electronics Logic Synthesis of Circuits Embedded Software Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Python (Programming Language)
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OrCAD Schematic Capture Software Engineering Fpga Hardware

Job description

  • Design, develop and validate high-speed digital electronics, FPGA solutions, embedded software and application software.
  • Build and automate product testing and characterisation using Python, developing repeatable test plans and customer-facing technical reports.
  • Support customers and partners with technical evaluations, demonstrations, training, integration and first-line technical support.
  • Represent the company at customer sites, trade shows and industry events, feeding customer insight back into product development and engineering

Requirements

  • Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related subject, with some relevant industry, internship or project experience.
  • Exposure to electronics design, including schematic capture (e.g. Altium/OrCAD) and hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging and rework.
  • Experience or academic/project exposure to C, Python and FPGA design, with an understanding of software development practices.

Personal Requirements

  • Fast learner and naturally inquisitive, able to quickly understand new technologies and apply them practically.
  • Proactive, reliable and adaptable, with the confidence to work autonomously in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Strong communicator who can translate technical problems between customer engineering teams and internal engineering.
  • Detail-oriented team player with a genuine enthusiasm for engineering and modern development practices, including AI-assisted workflows.

Bonus Skills

  • Experience working across the hardware/software interface, particularly where system constraints and interfaces are critical.
  • Exposure to high-speed digital design or FPGA development.
  • Experience with automated testing, technical documentation, specifications or customer-facing engineering.
  • Comfortable combining hands-on development with customer visits, demonstrations and field engineering, including international travel.

Benefits & conditions

  • Opportunity to work with the most bleeding edge technologies
  • Share options
  • 25 days holiday which increases year on year
  • Competitive pension scheme

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