Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer

Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer

Our client develops and manufactures subsea systems and products used across Energy, Ocean Science, Offshore and Defence sectors. Their products are used for communication, navigation, sensing and positioning.

You'll provide senior electronic design expertise for advanced subsea instrumentation, including optical modem technology and seismic recorder electronics. A key part of the role is taking ownership of externally developed designs and source code, and making sure they become fully supportable, documented and production-ready in-house.

Key responsibilities

Develop, review and modify electronics hardware, embedded firmware and FPGA designs
Take ownership of inherited designs, source code, interfaces and test methods
Work on low-power, low-noise, reliable subsea electronics and electro-optical interfaces
Support optical link performance testing and optimisation
Use embedded C, FPGA and Python for development, diagnosis and test automation
Help bring products to production readiness, including test fixtures and automated test
Provide senior input on design reviews, integration, verification and fault finding
Produce clear documentation, and work with internal teams and external partners to close design knowledge gaps

Skills and experience

Expert: electronics design, low-power design, embedded C/C++, FPGA, fault finding, documentation
Competent: Altium PCB design, ADCs and precision acquisition, clocks and timing, communication protocols (SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet, RS-485/232), EMC (EN60945), production support
Basic: electro-optical interfaces

Qualifications

Essential: 2:1 or above in a relevant engineering degree
Desirable: Master's or PhD in a relevant area (electronics, embedded systems, FPGA, photonics, instrumentation)

They are offering an excellent salary and benefits package, along with the opportunity to work on cutting edge subsea product development.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy