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# Hardware Design Engineer

- **Company:** Verso Recruitment Group
- **Location:** Sunderland, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Altium Designer, Hardware Design, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Schematic Capture, Software Engineering, PIC Microcontroller, Pcb Layout
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2888769854-hardware-design-engineer

## About the Role

* Experience in a similar role, strong across schematic capture, PCB layout, analogue and digital circuit design, microcontrollers and simulation
 * MEng in Electronic Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
 * Someone who can lead and motivate, and juggle several projects at once
 * Confident talking to technical and non-technical people alike
 * Diligent, detail-driven, and genuinely bothered about hitting milestones

Nice to have

 * Altium Designer
 * MATLAB / Simulink / LabVIEW
 * Some software development
 * Project management experience

## Description

I'm working with an established electronics business who design and build their own products in-house. They're after a Hardware Design Engineer to support new product development someone who can own the electronics design and grow into the go-to expert on their core technologies.

Small, fast-paced engineering team covering R&D, product development and new product introduction. You'd be leading projects, not just contributing to them.

What you'll be doing

 * Designing new products - circuit design, schematic capture and PCB layout
 * Working closely with the wider engineering team to get products into production
 * Leading internal and external project teams, including subcontractors, and dealing with customers where needed
 * Researching new technologies to keep the product roadmap current


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