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
Salary description
£58500.00 - £58500.00 per year