Senior Hardware Engineer

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This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

The Opportunity

We have a fantastic new opportunity for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join our Southampton based team.

Leonardo in Southampton is a world-leading manufacturer of Infrared detectors covering a broad range of wavelengths. These devices have widespread uses in the military field as well as many applications within the industrial and civil sectors. Leonardo also work closely with the scientific community to develop technologies in the Astronomy and Space sector.

Main Purpose of the Job

To support the design and development of electro-optical test equipment hardware for the company’s range of Infrared detectors, from initial product development through to volume production and through-life support.

To support both new products and in-house test equipment, Leonardo develops electronics that require digitisation of an analogue signal and data processing of the digitised stream. An FPGA is usually used as the timing and data processing engine.

What You Will Do

• Requirements capture, interpretation and generation of design specifications
• Electronics schematic design, layout, and simulation
• Characterisation/Commission reports of Electronic designs
• Validation of designs against requirements
• Definition and generation of test plans
• Integration and validation at system level
• Preparation of technical documentation and reports
• Adherence to company governance and quality processes

Key Skills and Experience required

Essential

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  Degree in Electronics Engineering (or equivalent)
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  Management of electronics design projects to achieve requirements within cost and time
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  Use of Schematic Capture tools (Mentor Graphics, Proteus or equivalent)
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  Ability to communicate technical information within the company and to customers
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  Demonstrate evidence of good organisation, planning, cost control and execution of work
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  Ability to work in a team with other engineering and science disciplines
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  Good Communication and customer liaison skills
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  Practical ‘hands on’ laboratory test, circuit construction and measurement experience
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  Experience in using industry standard design tools to generate low noise analogue designs, from initial requirements through commissioning into use.

What we are looking for

Desirable

Knowledge of device drivers and communication protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI, USB, Camera Link).

Experience of hardware design using FPGA devices

Experience in designing with video bandwidth amplifiers for low noise applications

Experience of working with Analogue to Digital converters

Experience of working with high level hardware description languages such as Verilog, and VHDL

Experience in undertaking component selection and de-rating analysis

Familiarity with integrated design tools such as Quartus® II/Prime software, Lattice Diamond, HDL designer and ModelSim

Analysis of hardware designs to determine the optimum FPGA solution


Experience of porting intellectual property (IP) functions and subsystems into an FPGA

Ability to work to recognised standards, such as MIL-STD and IPC-610 specifications

Practical soldering/workshop skills

Experience of SMPS design is also desirable.

Security Clearance

You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Life at Leonardo


With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution

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Our UK locations

We have offices around the UK, including Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Southampton and Yeovil

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