Hardware Development engineer needed for a 36-month contract based in Bristol, the ideal person will be able to start within 2 weeks of acceptance, immediate interview process of 2 Teams call, 1st interview will be a technical screening, and the final interview will be with the team on the project.

Role

Circuit design, requirements analysis, functional definition, and component selection

PCB Layout constraint definition, and support of PCB CAD layout team Circuit validation and verification

Design and running of tests to validate circuit performance and margin

Debugging and optimisation, in collaboration with the firmware team, of the correct system performance of microcontroller hardware control code

Prototype production support, prototype bring-up, evaluation & system test, prototype validation.

Support of transfer to mass production.

Key skills: - DCDC voltage (including multi-phase) regulators, linear regulators,PCB design, power delivery, Processor system development, STM32, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, FLASH, USB, I2C, SPI, JTAG, SERDES (eg 112Gbps, PAM4)

Experience

Demonstrable experience in digital circuit development and validation

Extensive practical lab experience, bringing up, debugging and validating designs

Experience in Siemens/Mentor PCB design flow for schematic capture, design constraints, PCB layout

Rigorous approach to ensure designs will work correctly first time

Excellent communications skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a small team, taking responsibility and willing to participate in all parts of the development cycle

Expertise in the use of high-speed digital oscilloscopes, logic analysers and signal generators

Experience in scripting (Linux, Python, Bash) of tests and Excel to analyse results.