Electronics Cooling Engineer

Description

Electronics Cooling Engineer

You will work closely with the electronics and board layout engineers at all the different stages of board development, for both rugged and more benign environments. The design team operates in a small company environment which means that most designs are completed by an individual engineer. As a result, each engineer rapidly becomes involved with all aspects of the product design and development. Short design timescales are an important part of the development strategy, which also results in our engineers being involved in many different product designs quite quickly.
Essential Skills / Experience:

You will be an established Electronics or Thermal Design Engineer, educated to graduate level, with significant experience of designing thermal solutions for electronic products in a range of operating environments.

You will need the ability to design cost-effective and compact solutions that have excellent thermal transfer characteristics. Practical skills are essential, because you will need to design and test your solutions and also work with our machinist and sub-contractors to get parts made.

Although you will be working with other engineers, you need to be independent and self-motivated, able to plan and carry out your work with little supervision, and with the ability to deliver effective results in short timescales.

Desirable Skills / Experience:

You should have experience with board-level designs that dissipate 60W or more, and use BGA packaged electronic components. A familiarity with VPX, VME or CompactPCI bus systems would be beneficial but is not essential. Experience of the thermal and mechanical issues involved in designing for harsh environments, such as airborne or ground vehicle mounted equipment, would be a significant advantage.
We use SolidWorks for mechanical design and CF Design for thermal analysis, so experience of these software packages is preferred, but others are acceptable.

Benefits:

We offer a very competitive salary package, which includes an optional stakeholder pension scheme (with a generous company contribution), plus life assurance and private health insurance schemes. We are also able to offer a relocation allowance where appropriate.