Electronics Hardware Engineer

Permanent
Engineering
Experienced
Hardware Engineer, Vehicle Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer, LTSPICE
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
£55000 - £65000 per annum

Company

Our client is a leader in advanced engineering solutions, delivering high-performance systems to the automotive, motorsport, and related sectors. With a strong focus on innovation, quality, and sustainability, they design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge technologies that meet the most demanding industry standards.

About this Senior Electronics Design Engineer Role

As a Senior Electronics Design Engineer, you will take full ownership of electronic system designs, from architecture through to production, ensuring compliance with automotive processes and standards. You will combine technical expertise with problem-solving skills, delivering robust, reliable designs and providing long-term product support. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle - from concept development, circuit design, and simulation, to validation, testing, and manufacturing - while identifying opportunities for process and technology improvements.

Why work as a Senior Electronics Design Engineer with our client?

  • Basic salary up to £65,000
  • Company pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Opportunity to work on innovative, high-performance projects across automotive and motorsport sectors
  • Hands-on involvement from initial concept through to production release
  • Collaborative environment with access to state-of-the-art tools and facilities

What is expected of you as a Senior Electronics Design Engineer with our client?

  • Architect and develop electronic systems to automotive processes and standards
  • Perform circuit design, analysis, and documentation
  • Debug designs and conduct verification and validation testing
  • Take ownership of designs, solving problems as they arise
  • Prepare and maintain thorough documentation for long-term product support
  • Identify and implement improvements to tools, techniques, and processes

Highly Desirable Experience

  • Architectural development of electronic systems
  • Circuit design, including:
    • H-bridges, solenoid, motor, and inductive load interfaces
    • High/low-side MOSFET switches
    • Current sensing and measurement
    • Op-amp circuits (amplifiers, filters, comparators)
    • Automotive microcontrollers with integrated peripherals
    • Analogue and digital external interfaces
  • Communications interfaces: SPI, I²C, CAN, LIN, Ethernet
  • Power supply design: linear regulators and switched-mode
  • PCB design, layout, and routing (using third-party layout resources)
  • Analogue circuit simulation for performance prediction
  • Creation of specifications, design descriptions, and test reports
  • Experience working in high-quality, process-driven environments, both independently and in cross-functional teams

Desirable Experience

  • Design for automotive environments and safety-related hardware
  • Functional safety hardware development
  • PCB design layout and routing using PCB tools
  • Design for reliability, component derating, and reliability analysis (FMEA)
  • Design for manufacture, test, and qualification (EMC, environmental)
  • EMC and environmental product testing
  • Writing simple hardware test software
  • Taking designs from architecture through to production

Qualifications & Tools Experience

  • Degree or higher in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline
  • Schematic capture (preferably Altium)
  • PCB layout viewers (ODB++, Gerber)
  • SPICE circuit simulation tools
  • Skilled with standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, signal generators, DMMs, etc.)
  • Soldering of through-hole and SMT components

If you would like to find out more about this role or other engineering vacancies. Please get in touch with TEC partners today.

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