Satellite Digital Electronics Lead Hardware Engineer

• Job Location: Stevenage, England
• Type: Contract
• Posted: 21/12/2022

This role will be known internally as a “Hardware Responsible Engineer” for flight equipment. The role entails hardware aspects of requirements management, design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses.

Able to interpret circuit board designs accommodating multiple FPGA / ASICs and high speed ADCs / DACs.

Interface with experts in other departments (e.g. Mechanical, PCB layout).

Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.

Note – this is not an RF design position

Job Profile
Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities –

Coordination of technical elements for a Digital PCB based equipment, working with and overseeing the work of design engineers in the same functional team

Review circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints

Consider switching speeds, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission

Review detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMEA

Interface with internal support functions e.g. Thermal and Mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement

Lead engineering investigations, troubleshooting and problem resolution activity

Skills

Essential:
High speed Digital electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection, board bring up and related analyses.

Desirable:
Mentor DxDesigner.
Requirements management (DOORS).

Experience

Essential:
Lifecycle experience of a Digital equipment – design / manufacture / test.

Desirable:
Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years.
Standards/accreditations/methodologies – ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards.
Digital interface experience, Spacewire, SerDes, CAN, 1553, etc.

Education & Training

Degree level, electronics engineering or similar (e.g. physics).


Working Pattern

Monday to Friday days.


Travel

Occasional travel to other UK sites.


Extension

Probable extension after initial contract duration.


Base of Work

Following a familiarisation period on site this role will be hybrid working with around three days per week on site – free parking is provided for this role.

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.