Lead Digital Hardware Engineer

QuEST Global Engineering Limited ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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Salary: £72000 to 77000 DOE + Pension matched upto 8% & Life assurance

Overview

QuEST Global is a pure play engineering solutions company with a proven track record that serves the product lifecycle needs of high technology companies. A pioneer in offshore product development engineering, QuEST Global is one of the largest engineering service providers that cater to diversified verticals. With its local-global model, QuEST Global combines physical proximity to the customer providing domain knowledge and ease of interaction; along with delivery from low cost locations that also provides easy resource ramp-up. We have a Permanent vacancy for a Lead Digital Hardware design engineer to provide services to one of our major UK clients. Role Overview: The Lead Digital hardware engineer would be responsible for design, commissioning and test of high-speed digital electronics hardware, i.e. Printed Circuit Assemblies (PCA’s) on complex systems . Job Responsibilities: · Creating high-quality and robust digit al electronics designs · Documenting and recording deliverables · Supporting integration & verification activities at hardware and system level · Keeping designs under configuration control · Providing progress reports · Providing guidance to and mentoring of other QuEST Digital hardware engineers Skills, Qualifications and Experience required: Essential · Degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or other STEM-based subject · Extensive experience of designing high-speed digital electronics using the latest FPGA and/ or microprocessor devices and high-speed interconnect technology · Relevant experience in the Aerospace, Military or Defence industry, in particular Radar or RF systems · Expert in schematic capture using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner or similar tools · Significant experience of high-speed serial communication interfaces/ protocols ( e.g. PCIe, Ethernet/ IEEE802.3, etc.) and high-speed bus architectures (e.g. DDR3/4) · Experience of circuit level functional simulation & timing analysis /constraints, signal integrity & power integrity analysis at board level · Experience of supervising/ mentoring other digital hardware engineers, planning and managing work for yourself and a small team, and coaching more junior engineers · Experience of PCB layout, working closely with and providing guidance to PCB layout engineers on high-speed digital designs · Experience of analysing system requirements and deriving detailed hardware requirements, requirements management tools and formal verification of hardware requirements · Hands on experience of integrating new hardware, firmware & software designs on FPGA and microprocessor-based PCA’s Experience of the full hardware design lifecycle, presenting designs for peer / formal design reviews and acting as an independent reviewer Self-motivated with an aptitude to problem solve and drive difficult issues to conclusion · Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead, other Digital hardware engineers & other disciplines · Experience of liaising with Manufacturing/ Production colleagues and external suppliers of key components · Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills · Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation Desirable · Knowledge of FPGA/ Software coding languages (VHDL, C, Assembler) Qualifications · 2:1 honours degree or better in Electronics Engineering or related STEM subject · Must have the ability to obtain Security Clearance (SC level) The role will be based at our customer’s site in Edinburgh with some travel between this and other customer and/ or QuEST sites in the UK. Depending on the customer’s requirements, the individual could find themselves working on a variety of defence-related projects, particularly in the airborne environment. Quest Global offers 25 days holiday plus stats, Company Pension Plan incorporating a Personal Health scheme and Life Insurance. Relocation is available where applicable. Apply direct to our Talent Acquisition team in Derby, who aim to respond to your application as soon as possible. In this current climate, we are holding Telephone and Video interviews in preparation for hire in the coming months. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89937529

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