Electronics Design Engineer

Based in Cambridge

Objectives

Responsible for the design of electronic units, and the provision of support, for wireless communications products, including microprocessor subsystems, network and telecommunications interfaces.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Responsible for designing electronic systems and circuit boards, supporting current product, and in due course supervising technicians.

Work closely with other Design Engineers to ensure a full comprehension of product concept, electronic requirements, product development priorities and time scales.

Assemble all related documents and work progresses, and draft as necessary.

Undertake other wide-ranging design work outside of own area of expertise as required including input to the design of the whole system.

Undertake basic mechanical design as necessary.

Determine and establish any necessary test specification, set up and run.

Ensure that all other records, specifications, and procedural instructions are properly drafted and maintained in order to provide information to management and any other interested party as required.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

• Degree in Electronic Engineering or allied subject

Experience

Essential

• At least 5 years experience of designing high-speed digital electronic circuits
• Experience of basic Mechanical Design
• Experience of Technical Drafting, schematic-capture etc
• Experience of high speed PCB design and management of layout

Experience of a substantial proportion of the following:

• 32-bit microprocessor systems
• FPGAs, CPLDs
• Telecom interfaces – E1/T1, SDH/Sonet etc
• High-speed network interfaces – 1G Ethernet, ATM155 etc
• THigh-speed analog-digital and digital-analog interfaces
• THigh-speed clock and signal management including PCB design
• TPower subsystem design
• TDesign and test for EMC and immunity
• TDesign for manufacture and test
• TATE test equipment design

Desirable

• Supervision of technical staff

Personal Aptitudes

Essential

• Able to work under pressure and to tight timescales
• Able to work as part of a team as well as alone with minimal supervision
• Mature, self motivated and organised

Special Aptitudes

• Able to work on own initiative but aware of when to seek advice

Personal Circumstances

• The job holder must, on occasion, be willing to work long hours if the needs of the company require it
• Must be able to travel, including overseas if necessary
• Live within commuting distance of Cambridge
• Current driving licence

Apply for this position

If you are interested in this position please email Catherine Lee attaching your CV and a covering letter.