Hardware Design Engineer R&D

Job Description

The R&D Engineer Hardware (HW) Design is member of an international R&D development team located in Cambridge, UK and Schliengen, Germany. The R&D team is developing highly sophisticated sensing devices to optimize production processes and for environmental emission monitoring to meet legal requirements.
Responsibilities:

The R&D Engineer HW Design acts in a team of scientists and engineers to develop analogue and digital hardware with Embedded SW. Starting from circuit ideation, schematics, layout and prototype production through to embedded programming, testing and handover to production.

The R&D Engineer HW Design independently carries out hardware developments and coordinates measures such as EMC tests and standard-compliant design for UKCA/CE labelling. A basic understanding of Embedded SW design enables him to discuss with Embedded SW Designers, if slightly more skilled they may take part in Embedded SW implementation and testing.

As part of a team, they will ideate, implement, calculate and describe HW concepts for approval-relevant requirements on metrological circuits, taking functional safety (SIL) and explosion protection (EX) into account. Their deep understanding of analogue and digital components and digital communication pathways helps us to develop energy and cost-efficient systems, while reducing the carbon footprint of our devices.

The R&D Engineer HW Design maintains existing products throughout their life cycle, revises circuit diagrams, layouts and components, maintains parts lists and production documents and, if necessary, assists with re-approval.

They document their work in the form of design documentation, test documentation and functional documentation, which can be used as a basis for the creation of manuals and the approval of the devices.

Experience:

HW design skills (essential)
Analog and digital HW design

Schematic design and PCB layout
Ideation for new sensor technologies, innovative circuits, signal-to-noise ratio, interference suppression, analogue sensor design
Testing, review and failure research

Redesign on legacy products

PCB redesign
Re-certification

HW Design for EX, SIL, EMC, low noise, low signal, amplification, signal converting

EX certification support

Tools

Altium 365
Converting from Eagle, CADstar to Altium 365
pSpice

Optional

FPGA design
ASIC design

Embedded SW skills (desirable)

Programming Languages, Standards and Tools

Bare Metal programming in C / C++

Optional

FPGA programming, VHDL
Embedded Linux, Android, RTOS, AWS

Target Processors

Versatile 8/16/32 bit processors
Renesas/Atmel/Microchip/ST32

Team Skills / Tools (desired)

Teamwork, Communication, Brainstorming Methods
Agile Project management
JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, SharePoint, Office 365
Requirement Management

Optional
Python, LabVIEW, MatLab
Experience on Functional Safety (EN61508) and other Safety standards
Safety dedicated development methods

International team support
Communication skills - Fluent English is essential
Option to travel

Location: Cambridge UK

Travel: Occasional travel may be required to other European site esp Germany or France

ENVEA is one of the world’s leading companies in environmental instrumentation, analysis, and measurement. Since its creation in 1978, ENVEA has been designing, manufacturing, and commercializing continuous measurement equipment for ambient air, industrial emissions, and software.

Today, ENVEA has recognized expertise in its specialist fields and is present in over 100 countries.
A true flagship of French industry and a pioneer in technology, ENVEA has always placed the preservation of the environment and sustainable innovation at the heart of the development of its measuring instruments, its strategy, and its values.