Senior Hardware Engineer - Product Redesign & High Speed Digital (x86)

Are you an electronics hardware engineer who wants hands-on access to the very newest generation of Intel silicon?

Our client has delivered high-performance embedded computing solutions across defence, telecoms, aerospace and more for decades, delivering best-in-class solutions that allow the latest generations of compute power to exist in the harshest of environments.

The Role
Once a product ships, someone owns it for the rest of its life. That's this role.

The early product hardware team spend six months to two years taking a product from spec to market; once it's out in the field, you take over. You'll solve the problems production and customers uncover, stay ahead of component obsolescence, and evolve the board to keep it competitive for years to come.

It means working on today's most advanced compute technology without the year-or-two design grind to get there. Every product you touch is already proven in the field, so you're solving real problems, not theoretical ones. Your candid feedback and collaborative spirit will help evolve hardware methodologies to keep mission-critical systems at the leading edge.

This is a hands-on role with a lot of lab work. You'll be as comfortable with an oscilloscope and logic analyser as you are at a screen, so it's an office-based role, though there is flexibility when life requires, or on the rare occasions when you don’t need access to the products, and the oscilloscope.

What You Will Be Doing
Full ownership of product redesign, from investigating reported issues through to a verified fix
Testing and redesign of existing products post-design: From prototype validation through to production, incorporating customer and production feedback
Lead the complete re-design of legacy products
Integrate the latest market components to extend product lifecycles
Create and modernise schematics and high-density PCB designs (16–20 layers), and verify layout work for signal integrity
Tackle component obsolescence, and manage documentation
Conduct design reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and environmental test chambers
Report on technical progress
Actively shape hardware development processesWhat We Are Looking For
3+ years of professional electronics engineering experience with a strong focus on high-speed digital circuit design and debugging
Degree in a discipline relevant to electronics
A desire to work with high-performance Intel architecture and the newest generation of compute silicon
Understanding of complex, high-layer-count PCB design well enough to review and verify layout work, including signal integrity considerations such as crosstalkDesirable But Not Required
A desire to work with PC motherboard architecture (64-bit microprocessors, PCI Express, Ethernet, DDR4 Memory) or Inten chipsets
FPGAs
Some understanding of embedded softwareBenefits
Up to 10% employer contribution pension
25 days holidays with holiday purchase scheme
Annual bonus / profit share
Cycle to work, Home & Tech and car salary sacrifice schemes
Death in service benefit & income protection
Wellbeing – Employee assistance / virtual GP / enhanced parental leave / private health insurance / wellbeing apps / paid volunteering days
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed