Senior Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

County Durham | Hybrid WFH

£75,000 to £85,000 | Relocation Package

If you’re the kind of electronics engineer who’d sooner start from a blank schematic and a stack of datasheets than bolt together somebody else’s modules, I’ve a role here that ought to pique your interest.

A client of KO2’s, a thriving and steadily expanding engineering business in County Durham, is looking to add a Senior Electronics Engineer to its design team. At a time when a good many companies are keeping their heads down and their chequebooks firmly shut, this one is doing quite the opposite: investing, growing headcount and taking on new work. They operate in one of the relatively few sectors currently enjoying real, sustained growth, and frankly that’s a rarer commodity than it ought to be.

The heart of the matter

What this role really hinges upon is genuine, component level circuit design. Analogue, digital and mixed signal, done properly from first principles. You’ll have designed the power supplies, the amplifiers, the filtering and the signal conditioning yourself, picked every part, simulated it, and seen it through to a board that works. If you’re the person others come to when a circuit is misbehaving and nobody can work out why, you’ll fit in reet well.

A flavour of the work

You’ll own designs from the initial concept all the way through to volume production, which in practice means:

• Specifying, simulating and designing analogue, digital and mixed signal circuits at component level
• Building microprocessor based systems around ADCs, DACs and supporting logic
• Capturing schematics and setting out PCB requirements, from materials to layer stack
• Bringing designs up on the bench and integrating them at system level, working with interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN, SPI and I²C
• Getting to the bottom of hardware and communications faults, methodically and without fuss
• Carrying out thermal, tolerance and reliability analysis, MTBF included, so designs stand the test of time
• Writing test specifications and reports, and taking part in (and leading) design reviews
• Working hand in glove with software and firmware colleagues, supporting product introduction, and keeping a beady eye on obsolescence before it bites

What you’ll need

• A degree in Electronic Engineering or a closely related field, or the equivalent hard won experience
• A strong track record of component level analogue and digital design
• Schematic capture and PCB design tool experience (Altium would be champion, but it’s not a deal breaker)
• A sound understanding of EMC and EMI, both in design and in test
• Real comfort in the lab with oscilloscopes, logic analysers and the usual array of test kit

Experience of high volume manufacture and surface mount processes would be a definite plus.

Why it’s worth your while

Pay: £75,000 to £85,000, which puts it comfortably in the upper echelons for electronics design in the North East.

Balance: hybrid working on a 37.5 hour week, with 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and the option to purchase additional leave.

Security: a generous employer pension contribution, life cover and income protection.

A stake in it: a share scheme, so you benefit directly from the growth you’re helping to drive.

Perks: an electric car scheme, cycle to work, paid time off to volunteer, and a real commitment to your ongoing development.

Moving: relocation support is on hand if you’re coming from further afield.