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# Avionics - Airborne Electronic Hardware Designer

- **Company:** Airbus
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Altium Designer, Analog Electronics, Communications Protocols, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Digital Electronics, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Digital Technology, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, OrCAD, Static Timing Analysis, Systems Architecture, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Serial Peripheral Interface, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html

## About the Role

Knowledge of digital instrumentation and verification techniques and latest digital design tools
Provide detailed data and information about system elements to enable consistent implementation with architectural entities defined in system architecture models and views.
Verify compliance of a detailed PLD solution against validated requirements at aircraft equipment or system level.
Required Competences & Skills
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
5+ years of experience in hardware design for embedded or airborne systems within aerospace, defense, industrial, or high?reliability sectors
Strong expertise in digital and analog electronics, high?speed design, signal and power integrity, embedded architectures, and EMI/EMC considerations
Advanced experience with PCB design and review tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD, or similar
Experience with aerospace communication protocols and interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, ARINC or similar avionics interfaces)
Proven experience in hardware bring?up, debugging, and validation
Strong understanding of safety?critical development environments
Professional working proficiency in English
Desired Competencies & Skills
Previous experience in aerospace, avionics, UAV, or defense programs
Knowledge of certification processes and airborne compliance standards (DO?254, DO?160, MIL?STD environments)
Experience with FPGA?based systems and RF electronics
Exposure to the full product lifecycle development from concept to certification and production

## Description

Airborne Electronic Hardware Designer We are looking for an experienced and motivated engineer with a passion for advanced digital systems and aerospace technologies.
The selected candidate will join a multidisciplinary team, in charge of the full life?cycle of the design and build of airborne electronic products and solutions.
Responsibilities
Design and develop complex airborne electronic hardware solutions
Define hardware requirements and ensure system level requirements allocation
Perform component selection considering reliability, obsolescence, thermal, and environmental constraints
Support hardware validation, integration, qualification and environmental testing campaigns
Collaborate closely with firmware developers, systems designers and certification responsible authorities
Manage supplier work packages for the design, manufacturing and validation activities during prototype and production phases
Participate in technical reviews with internal customer teams and external certification/qualification authorities (INTA, EASA)
Prepare technical documentation aligned with aerospace development and certification processes
Ensure compliance with aerospace and airborne standards DO?254 and DO?160
Associated Competencies
Digital Electronic Hardware Detailed Design: ability to design and analyse digital electronic circuits, including logic circuits in FPGA, PLD requirements capture, timing analysis, corner case analysis, power consumption estimation and environmental constraints.


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