Senior Hardware Engineer
hace 5 días
Cambridge
Senior Hardware Engineer If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems in safety-critical environments and want to see your designs move from concept through to real-world deployment, this could be YOUR next step. This well-established, technology-driven organisation in the Cambridge area is investing heavily in its next generation of products and is looking to bring in an experienced Senior Hardware Engineer to strengthen a highly capable Baseband Hardware team. You will be joining a collaborative, technically ambitious environment where engineers are trusted with ownership, encouraged to influence design decisions, and supported to develop both technically and professionally. Why this role? • Work on technically demanding, safety-critical electronic platforms, • Take real ownership of features and subsystems within major product developments, • Be part of a stable, growing engineering group with long-term product roadmaps, • Influence design decisions from early architecture through to verification, • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, systems and verification What you will be doing: • Owning delivery of defined product features or significant sections of larger platforms, • Designing intrinsic safety circuitry for ATEX-certified products, including thermal management and current-limiting strategies, • Developing microprocessor-based systems with integrated sensors, • Creating efficient, low-power power-supply architectures for demanding operating environments, • Designing audio amplifier solutions up to 10W, • Leading design verification, EMC validation and system-level testing, • Producing high-quality technical documentation to support release and certification, • Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams What we need from you: • A degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent industry experience), • Proven experience developing hardware for ATEX-certified or intrinsically safe environments, • Strong understanding of intrinsic-safety principles and regulatory compliance pathways, • Experience with microprocessor systems, low-power architectures and power-saving strategies, • Confidence across serial interfaces such as I²S, I²C, UART and USB (USB 3.0 particularly welcome), • The ability to communicate complex designs clearly through written technical documentation, • A proactive, collaborative mindset and comfort working in evolving development programmes An added bonus……. • EMC and ESD design experience at component and system level, • Exposure to complex mixed-signal architectures, • Audio system design experience, • Familiarity with embedded Linux environments, board bring-up or driver integration What can you expect in return: • Salary in the range of £65,000 - £85,000, dependent on experience, • Private health and dental care, • Subsidised onsite restaurant, • Enhanced pension contribution, • Flexible working hours, • Employee assistance programme, • Free onsite parking, • Regular social events Interested? If this sounds like the kind of role where you could make a real impact, I’d welcome a confidential conversation. Get in touch to find out more.