Senior Hardware Engineer

Senior Hardware Engineer – Electronics We are exclusively partnering with an emerging technology developer based in Ely on their latest recruitment drive which will see the company double in size. A startup, in R&D stage, financially backed by a wider global organisation, that innovates and creates exceptional products, technologies and services that will improve the lives of people while collaborating with some of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Within walking distance of Ely train station this role is accessible from both London and Cambridge within 1 hour. The successful candidate will be at the centre of a high-performance R&D Team that operates under the core SCRUM principles. Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire Hours: 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday (option to work from home on Wednesdays) Hourly Rate / Salary: Circa £55,000 Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, after 3-years of successful performance, it will carry an additional 1-day of annual leave for every additional 3-years of service until the total annual leave reaches 30-days a year, Contributory Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, paid membership fees for Sports Initiatives, Performance based Share Options after 3-years of employment Who are we? We are Busy Bee Recruitment, an awarding-winning recruitment agency supplying both temporary and permanent staffing solutions throughout the UK to our client base spanning multiple sectors including: Sales & Marketing, Admin & Customer Service, Technical & Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing, Finance & Accountancy, Care & Education, Supply Chain & Logistics. Duties: * Electronics design process, schematic capture, component selection, simulation, and PCB layout * Evaluate and introduce new technologies, new electronics laboratory requirements & certifications to improve existing facilities. * Ensure hardware designs are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory and safety standards * Co-ordinate early prototype builds, taking a hands-on approach to hardware design * Design debugging and verification by taking part * Leading the subsystem level DFMEA activities to help identify risks and suitable mitigations * Perform requirements analysis and requirements * Review and set requirements for firmware/FPGA engineers to produce test specifications * Ensuring test procedures and processes are compatible with the CI of products and technologies * Contributing to meetings through document preparation, presentations * Estimating time and effort required for hardware (and firmware) activities and delivering to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence. * Reviewing technical proposals * Assist with providing accurate estimates * Define, architect, develop, document, and Test FPGA firmware What our client is looking for from you: * Experience as a SCRUM team member is an advantage * 5+ years of full life cycle experience in the R&D of Commercial Products and Technologies, * Extensive industry experience, working on the development of production-ready systems and the design of multi-layer PCB's (stack-up design) * Electronics design in CAD (preferably Altium but also Mentor-Graphics), both schematic and layout. * Experience with microprocessor and microcontroller designs, communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Profibus, etc), high-speed communication interfaces and buses. * Design for EMC compliance design for manufacturing and test (DFM, DFT) * Experience with power supply design in a mobile or low power environment, memory subsystems * Ability to use SCRUM project management principles Skills that are a distinct advantage: * Experience in developing and implementing complex imaging or tomographic devices such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, etc is an advantage. * Experience in Electromagnetic Tomography Circuit Design such as ECT, EIT, ERT, MIT, CIFT is a distinct advantage If you have not received a response within 3-5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Busy Bee Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency for this Permanent vacancy