Copello have partnered with an established defence business in the recruitment of a Senior Hardware Engineer to join their Weapons team based in Harlow.

Please note that candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance.

Main Duties:

* Develop requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant standards.

* Work alongside our system engineers on architectures of electronic subsystems

* Schematic creation, PCB design, component selection, evaluation and verification

* Work alongside our embedded software engineers and mechanical engineers

* Generate supporting design documentation and perform regular technical reviews.

Essential Requirements:

* Experience with embedded digital electronics and microprocessor systems

* Experience of working with ADC/DAC

* Experience of working with memory devices such as SRAM, Flash

* Experience working with FPGAs and SoC technologies.

* Experience of creating prototypes and turning them into a production hardware.

* Experience designing PCBs in conformance with defence engineering standards/airborne standards

* Experience in designing for manufacture

* Able to present technical information clearly and concisely to others

* Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills

* An openness to learn and try new techniques

* Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment - working independently or with others to overcome obstacles

* Capable of analysing and reporting on technical data

* Eligible or holder of current SC security clearance

Desirable Requirements:

* Experience of working with the Xilinx chip family

* Familiarity with the application of a systems engineering approach across the design and development life cycle

* Experience using the Mentor Xpedition PCB design tool and SPICE

* Experience creating DO254 compliant electronic systems

* APNT systems domain knowledge and/or experience in a similar field

* Understanding of environmental requirements (shock, vibration, EMC, etc.), experience applying these requirements to a design and experience testing for these requirements