Electronics Design Engineer
3 months ago
Telford
Role scope; Responsible for electronic content of products, including system architecture, circuit design, integration, and lifecycle support. Accountable for system-level decisions, design integrity, and practical delivery. System integration • Working with mechanical designers to ensure designs are practical and manufacturable, • Contributing to whole-product design decisions Core Responsibilities - Define system architecture from incomplete or evolving requirements - Design analogue and digital circuits, including control, power, and communications - Produce and review schematics, PCB layouts, and supporting documentation - Balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability - Identify technical risks early and implement mitigation - Support prototype bring-up, debugging, validation, and production introduction Standards and Quality requirements • Ensure designs meet regulatory, safety, EMC, and reliability expectations, • Maintains traceability of decisions and produces samples suitable for peer review and audit, • Fulfills electronic role responsibility to the product technical file Design and development • Circuit design from first principles, • Component selection based on long-term availability and robustness, • PCB layout (including thermal management and EMC compliance), • Prototype build, test and iteration, • Managing timeline targets across multiple, concurrent, developments Product lifecycle management • Maintaining existing designs, • Obsolescence management and redesign where required, • Supporting continuity of supply when components become unavailable, • Improving existing products as technology changes Testing and validation • Define and carry out testing appropriate to product use, • Prioritise reliability and longevity over cost, • Identify and remove failure modes early, • Write simple firmware for prototyping and diagnostics, • Use external specialists where appropriate, • Review and challenge external software design Work standards • Products work first time, are buildable, suit user skill level and are reliable, • Designs tolerate variation in use and environmental requirements, • Selected components have a robust supply chain, or alternative flexibility is designed in, • Problems are understood and solved, not worked around, • Cost is managed, but never at the expense of reliability, • Prioritisation of robustness, • Incomplete information and ambiguity is solved through solution based outcomes, • Solutions follow practical principles, not unneeded feature proliferation, • Designs are buildable, testable, and supportable, • Contributing to a safe working environment Collaboration • With mechanical, firmware, and production functions to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable, • Engages suppliers and specialists while retaining technical ownership Reporting and structure • Reports to: Design Manager, • Works alongside electrical and mechanical design, production & purchasing