Principal Hardware Engineer

Location: Rochester, full time on site

Rate: £69.72 ph PAYE (£79.86 ph inclusive of holiday pay) or £94.24 p/h Umbrella

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Duration: 12 Months initial

As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety-critical technology.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with leading, innovating cutting edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.

Typical duties include:

Executing complex hardware design tasks in accordance with the hardware development plan, whilst meeting agreed timescales and allocated budgets

Conducting hardware requirements capture, preliminary design, detailed design including a range of analysis tasks

Adopting an innovative approach to design and identifying improvements to working practices

Working with other disciplines within an integrated team to optimise solutions and minimise impacts from dependencies

Providing technical guidance and support to the development and delivery of all aspects of digital &/or analogue electronics solutions.

Coaching & developing the skills of junior team members

Delivering design artefacts in accordance with company and industry standards

Key Skillset

Knowledge:

Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise

Analogue simulations tools, e.g. Simetrix or Spice

Timing designer tools, e.g. Chronology

Signal integrity tools and principles

System development tools, e.g. Enterprise Architect, Matlab, Simulink

Requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS

Proven ability working on safety critical systems.

Skills:

Working knowledge and experience of digital &/or analogue electronics technologies

Experience of working through the full engineering development lifecycle, from concept to product certification

Ability to demonstrate a good appreciation of cost and schedule constraints on designs, to meet programme needs

Capable of providing robust engineering judgement in all phases of the engineering development lifecycle.

Robust understanding of product design and work package control.

Proven ability in digital &/or analogue electronics technologies.

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