Description
We are recruiting for a Hardware engineer based in Stevenage on contract working for a leading Defence & Space organisation.
Job Summary
Hardware 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 - may require travel to Portsmouth.
Interface with many experts in other departments (eg radiation, EMC).
Customer interface on technical issues.
Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation.
Job Profile
Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities -
- 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 at component/equipment/mechanical 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