Description
We are recruiting for a Hardware engineer for flight equipment based in Stevenage on contract, including the hardware aspects of requirements management, detailed design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses.
Job Summary
Hardware engineer for flight equipment, including the hardware aspects of requirements management, detailed 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.
Support to manufacture and test
Interface with many experts in other departments (eg radiation, EMC).
Customer interface on technical issues.
Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.
Job Profile
- Produce digital electronic board specifications, from product or architecture requirements
- Define interfaces and digital parameters.
- Consider switching speeds, pulses, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission
- Define performance criteria and define how to prove validation and verification of performance with test strategy.
- Produce circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints.
- Detailed design analysis eg WCA, PSA, FMECA/FMEA
- Support detailed design in CAD/CAM or VHDL implementation on component/equipment/mechanical/VHDL level in accordance with engineering design rules.
- Interface with internal support functions eg radiation, thermal and mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement
- External customer and supplier interface on technical presentations and issues
Skills
Essential:
High speed electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection and related analyses.
Desirable:
Mentor DxDesigner.
Requirements management (DOORS) and SoC/RFD management.
Experience
Essential:
Lifecycle experience of digital equipments design/manufacture/test, including customer interfacing.
Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years
Hardware used debug and test validation of designs
Software used schematic capture, layout and simulation tools (eg Mentor Expedition)
Standards/accreditations/methodologies ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards