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# Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Gattaca Plc
- **Location:** Luton, UK
- **Salary:** £176,800.0 - £197,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Altium Designer, Software Debugging, Digital Arts, Digital Electronics, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, OrCAD, PCI Express, Schematic Capture, Signal Processing, Signal Integrity, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Pcb Layout
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5947219480

## About the Role

* Proven experience designing high-speed digital electronics within aerospace, defence or other safety/mission-critical industries.
 * Strong background in FPGA and SoC-based hardware architectures (Xilinx, AMD, Intel/Altera or equivalent).
 * Experience designing complex multilayer PCBs incorporating:
 + High-speed serial interfaces
 + High-performance processors
 + DDR memory subsystems
 + FPGA-based signal processing solutions
 * Hands-on experience with schematic capture and PCB design tools such as:
 + Altium Designer
 + Xpedition/Expedition
 + OrCAD
 * Practical board-level debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, spectrum analysers and protocol analysers.
 * Experience integrating hardware, firmware and software on complex embedded systems.
 * Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and timing considerations in high-speed digital designs.
 * Experience developing products to demanding EMC, EMI and environmental requirements.
 * Ability to interpret, decompose, and implement system requirements into robust hardware solutions.
 * Experience supporting verification, validation and qualification activities.

Desirable Experience

 * Electronic Warfare, Radar, RF, Communications, or Sensor systems.
 * Safety-critical or mission-critical product development.
 * FPGA signal processing architectures.
 * DO-254, DEF STAN, MIL-STD or equivalent aerospace and defence standards.
 * Hardware design reviews and technical leadership activities.
 * Design for Manufacture (DfM), Design for Test (DfT) and Design for Reliability (DfR).

## Description

* Design and develop complex digital and mixed-signal hardware solutions for defence and aerospace applications.
 * Define hardware architectures for FPGA, SoC and processor-based systems.
 * Capture schematics and support PCB layout activities for high-speed, high-performance digital designs.
 * Design and verify high-speed interfaces including DDR memory, PCIe, Ethernet and similar protocols.
 * Integrate FPGA, processor, software and firmware components into complete system solutions.
 * Perform design analysis, simulation, validation and verification activities.
 * Support hardware bring-up, debugging and root-cause investigation at board and system level.
 * Work closely with Systems, Firmware, Software, RF, Mechanical and Production Engineering teams.
 * Support environmental, EMC/EMI and qualification testing in accordance with defence and aerospace standards.
 * Produce technical documentation, design evidence and progress reporting in accordance with structured engineering lifecycles.
 * Support customer demonstrations, integration activities, acceptance testing and trials.