Job Ref: 215270594

Date: 2021-11-29 10:17:23

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Chelton are recruiting for a Senior Electronics Design Engineer contractor reporting to the technical lead of a project. The Senior Electronics Design Engineer will be part of the NATO JEWCS operational readiness EW pods design IPT and working closely with Project and Program Managers will apply extensive design expertise to a wide range of complex problems and provide technical guidance to the other team members. The Senior Electronics Design Engineer oversee and drive engineering work packages ensuring that the performance expectations in key electronic development projects and programs are met or exceeded.

The Senior Electronics Design Engineer will be designing Electronics Boards schematics Design using Altium, and component selection to meet rugged airborne environmental requirements. This will involve Complex high-speed digital, analogue and Desirable RF surface mount electronics board design.

This is a hands-on role which covers the whole range of board level development, design and support activities to deliver the design from system design review through to acceptance testing. You will play a key part in each of these stages and ensure that all work is carried out with strict adherence to Chelton’s management procedures and engineering development processes.

This position is based at our Marlow site and is initially a 6 month contract; first 2 months can exclusively remote working

As a Senior Electronics Design Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

* Design experience in most of the following areas are essential:

* Analogue, High speed Digital

* Wideband RF (up to 2GHz)

* Airborne avionic LRUs, ATR, VPX systems.

* RF board level design is desirable (but not essential)

* Experience in design tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, Mentor Graphics schematic, PSpice, Analogue Filter design, Modelling and simulation.

* Experience of component selection and sourcing.

* Components schematic symbol generation.

* Experience in electronics technology and interfaces such as VPX VITA standard PCB schematic designs, IPMI, JTAG, large Digital SoC and FPGAs, DDR, RF PCB design, Analogue OpAmps, Comparators, ADC DAC, Ethernet 1G/10G, RS232/422, UART, SPI, I2C, etc.

* Experience in designing boards to meet extreme rugged environmental requirements especially temperature and vibration.

* Experience in designing boards to meet stringent EMC standards to minimise leakage and cross talk and to meet DO160 or MIL standards.

* Experience with Laboratory test equipment: RF Spectrum Analyser, RF Signal Analyser, RF Signal Generator, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyser and Digital Volt Meter.

As a Senior Electronics Engineer your main responsibilities will involve:

* Designing Electronics Board schematics Design, component selection to meet requirements.

* Interface definition and board management high speed clocking large FPGA/SoC.

* Preparation of technical Design specification, Test procedures and other project documentation.

* Preparation of PCB Design layout guidance and specification and interface with 3rd party PCB layout company.

* Reporting of progress to the technical lead.

* Application of, and compliance with, engineering processes and practices including engineering framework, Life Cycle Management and regulatory requirements.

* Collaboration with other project team members to address project requirements.

* Collaboration with multi-discipline peers within the team

* Currently holds or has ability to obtain a SC Security Clearance.

* Educational qualifications: Minimum technical degree or equivalent experience.

Hours and location of work:

This position will be remote working for the first 2 months and then a mix of remote and hands on testing integrating in a laboratory at our Marlow site.

It is expected when necessary to work 5 days a week at the Marlow site for critical test and integration phase as required.

This is for a full time 37 hours a week contract position.

This client will only accept workers operating via an or engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this Systems Engineer position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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