Hardware Development Engineer

Position : Hardware Development Engineer

Location: UK - Bristol

Experience 5 to 8 years of experience

• Circuit design, requirements analysis, functional definition, and component selection
• PCB Layout constraint definition, and support of PCB CAD layout team Circuit validation and verification
• Design and running of tests to validate circuit performance and margin
• Debugging and optimisation, in collaboration with the firmware team, of the correct system performance of microcontroller hardware control code
• Prototype production support, prototype bring-up, evaluation & system test, prototype validation.

Support of transfer to mass production.

Key skils; DCDC voltage (including multi-phase) regulators, linear regulators , PCB design, power delivery, Processor system development, STM32, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, FLASH, USB, I2C, SPI, JTAG, SERDES (eg 112Gbps, PAM4)

5 to 8 years of experience

• Demonstrable experience in digital circuit development and validation
• Extensive practical lab experience, bringing up, debugging and validating designs
• Experience in Siemens/Mentor PCB design flow for schematic capture, design constraints, PCB layout
• Rigorous approach to ensure designs will work correctly first time
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a small team, taking responsibility and willing to participate in all parts of the development cycle
• Expertise in the use of high-speed digital oscilloscopes, logic analysers and signal generators

Experience in scripting (Linux, Python, Bash) of tests and Excel to analyse results