Electronics Engineer

Job Description

SUMMARY
Valkyrie Industries is an ambitious deep-tech company based in London developing haptic technology for virtual simulations (VR & AR). Our mission is to create the best wearable muscle haptics technology and to scale this across healthcare, gaming and entertainment.

Our first consumer-ready units are scheduled to ship this year aimed towards the recovery and rehabilitation market.

THE ROLE
We're looking for an outstanding electronics engineer with a passion for wearables to join the team. The work will require electronic hardware and firmware design in both the digital and analog domains. Additionally, you will be involved in the design for manufacturing, supply chain management and mass manufacturing of our devices. You'll be involved in optimising existing projects, creating new versions of the product, prototyping and developing new products.

This role has great potential for career growth with a possibility of becoming a Head of Hardware.

You will be part of an energetic and creative team designing revolutionary haptic devices for sports and rehabilitation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Your responsibility will be to develop electronics for the state of the art wearable haptic products. There will be demanding technical requirements in areas including electronics prototyping, cost reduction & manufacturing, Bluetooth functionality, writing firmware as well as managing freelance engineers.

You will be working closely and effectively with CTO, CEO, mechanical and industrial engineers and software development team, developing, testing and verifying the state-of-the-art technology.

It will be important to be able to break projects down into stages with clear

deliverables/dependencies

and deliver project work to committed timescales.

PERSONAL PROFILEExperience & Personality:
4+ years in electronics design
An interest in human-computer interfaces and/or wearables
High degree of autonomy and self-motivation
Knowledge and Skills:
Be able to design a hardware device from scratch
Strong proven C programming experience with experience programming embedded firmware
Experience with ESP-IDF
Experience with RF / BLE protocols
Knowledge of Altium / KiCad / Eagle or Solidworks
Solid understanding of Linux environment
An understanding of end of line testing and PCBA verification
Excellent multi-disciplinary team working (mech, SW, QA, factories) and communication skills
Desired skills and experience
Experience of commercial electronic design and manufacturing
Experience in medical devices compliance and certification
Degree in EEE or similar
ESP32 protocols
Design of wearable electronics
Design of electro-muscular stimulation systems
3D design
Schedule:
40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
25 days a year holiday
Salary:
Negotiable depending on experience
£45,000.00 ~ £60,000.00 pa depending on the experience + Share options.
BENEFITS
Flexible working environment. Main office in London Bridge.
Competitive salary with end-of-year reviews
Stock options
⛵ Annual company retreat & regular get-togethers
Quest 3 VR headset to use at home
Frequent chances to travel abroad
A new PC/Mac workstation provided

HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your CV and cover letter via LinkedIn, or to [email protected]. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

At this stage of our company's growth, we cannot offer relocation or visa sponsorship and you must be eligible to work in the UK without restriction.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for this job position.

No recruiters, please.