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# Hardware Design Engineer

- **Company:** Leonardo UK
- **Location:** Caddington, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £54,000.0 - £71,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Digital Electronics, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, MATLAB, PCI Express, Schematic Capture, Signal Integrity, Software Requirements Analysis, Model-Driven Development
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2999523387-2

## About the Role

* Proven industry experience as a Senior, Principal or Lead Hardware Engineer.
 * Strong background in one or more of:
 + High speed digital electronics
 + Mixed signal or high performance analogue design
 + Power electronics / low noise power architectures
 * Hands on experience designing high speed PCBs, including schematic capture, layout oversight and simulation.
 * Experience with:
 + FPGA, SoC or microprocessor based designs
 + High speed serial links and protocols (e.g. PCIe, Ethernet, JESD class interfaces)
 * Practical expertise in hardware bring up, debug, test and verification.
 * Ability to interpret and derive hardware designs from system level requirements.
 * Strong understanding of Design for EMC/EMI in demanding environments.
 * Experience integrating hardware, firmware and software into working platforms.
 * Comfortable working within a structured hardware development lifecycle and configuration controlled environment.

Valuable (but not essential):

 * Experience in EW, radar, sensors or other complex defence systems.
 * Background in automotive, medical, aerospace or high reliability industrial electronics.
 * Experience with low noise analogue design, power supplies or signal integrity.
 * Use of model driven engineering approaches (e.g. MATLAB / Simulink).

## Description

* Own and influence hardware designs across the full lifecycle - from system requirements and architecture through detailed design, test, integration and customer delivery.
 * Design and develop complex, high performance electronics including:
 + High speed digital and mixed signal PCBs
 + FPGA, SoC and microprocessor based architectures
 + High speed serial interfaces and interconnects
 * Translate system level requirements into robust, producible hardware solutions.
 * Lead or significantly contribute to design reviews, trade studies and technical decision making.
 * Integrate in house designs with COTS modules (power, compute, RF and high speed interfaces).
 * Drive debug, test and verification activities at board and system level.
 * For Principal and Lead engineers:
 + Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the team
 + Shape hardware strategy, standards and best practice across programmes
 * Collaborate daily within multi disciplinary teams spanning systems, firmware, software, RF and manufacturing.