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# Senior Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Tec Partners
- **Location:** Enfield, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Computer-Aided Design, Altium Designer, Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics, Embedded C, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), MATLAB, OrCAD, Radio-Frequency Identification, Schematic Capture, Signal Integrity, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Scripting, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** September 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5881137004

## About the Role

We are interested in speaking with experienced Electronics or Hardware Engineers with a strong background in board-level electronic design.

Ideally, you will have experience across several of the following areas:

 * High-speed digital electronics
 * Multilayer PCB design and layout
 * Schematic capture and PCB CAD tools such as Altium Designer or OrCAD
 * Signal integrity
 * Analogue electronics and circuit simulation
 * FPGA-based hardware, ideally with exposure to VHDL
 * Embedded C and hardware/firmware integration
 * RF electronics or interfacing with RF systems
 * MATLAB
 * Automated hardware testing or scripting
 * Hardware verification, validation and board bring-up
 * Component lifecycle and obsolescence management
 * Supporting electronics through development and into manufacture

Experience within defence, aerospace, radar, communications, marine electronics, instrumentation or another complex electronic product environment would be particularly relevant.

You should be comfortable taking ownership of designs, solving complex technical problems and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams.

A degree, HND/HNC or equivalent experience within Electronics Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering or a closely related discipline would be preferred.

## Description

As Senior Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development and verification of complex electronic hardware and PCB assemblies., * Design and development of high-speed digital electronic hardware

 * Analogue circuit design and simulation
 * Schematic capture and multilayer PCB design/layout
 * Signal integrity considerations across complex board-level designs
 * Translating system-level requirements into robust electronic designs
 * Hardware bring-up, testing, verification and troubleshooting
 * Producing test specifications, circuit descriptions and supporting technical documentation
 * Supporting FPGA-based designs and hardware/firmware integration
 * Interfacing with RF hardware and associated electronics where required
 * Developing scripts and tools to configure, test and verify hardware
 * Supporting existing electronic assemblies through investigation and fault finding
 * Working closely with manufacturing during the introduction of new hardware and test solutions
 * Identifying technical risks and contributing to design reviews
 * Supporting component selection, lifecycle management and obsolescence activities
 * Taking ownership of technical tasks throughout the complete product development lifecycle


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