Digital Electronics Design Engineer

Our client based in the Stevenage area is looking for a Digital Electronic Design Engineer to join their team on a contract basis. Please note, this role is inside IR35. Job Summary Hardware engineer for flight equipment, including the hardware aspects of requirements management, detailed design and interface specification, test specification, reports and design analyses. Able to interpret circuit board designs accommodating multiple FPGA / ASICs and high speed ADCs / DACs. Support to manufacture and test - may require travel to Airbus in Portsmouth. Interface with many experts in other departments (e.g. radiation, EMC). Customer interface on technical issues. Generate, oversee and configure technical documentation. Job Profile Typical tasks, activities, responsibilities - Produce digital electronic board specifications, from product or architecture requirements Define interfaces and digital parameters. Consider switching speeds, pulses, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission Define performance criteria and define how to prove validation and verification of performance with test strategy. Produce circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints. Detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMECA/FMEA Support detailed design in CAD/CAM or VHDL implementation on component/ equipment/ mechanical/VHDL level in accordance with engineering design rules. Interface with internal support functions e.g. radiation, thermal and mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement External customer and supplier interface on technical presentations and issues Skills Essential: High speed electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection and related analyses. Desirable: Mentor DxDesigner. Requirements management (DOORS) and SoC / RFD management. Experience Lifecycle experience of digital equipments - design / manufacture / test, including customer interfacing. Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years Hardware used - debug and test validation of designs Software used - schematic capture, layout and simulation tools (e.g. Mentor Expedition) Standards/accreditations/methodologies - ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards Desirable: Space industry experience. Experience of team leadership, mentoring junior design engineers Education & Training Degree level education, electronics engineering or similar (e.g. physics) desirable but not essential Additional Information Contract role Duration: 6 months Inside IR35 Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.