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Lead Hardware Engineer (Satellite Digital Electronics)

Lead Hardware Engineer (Satellite Digital Electronics)

  • Location

    Stevenage

  • Sector:

    Engineering & Technical

  • Job type:

    Contract

  • Salary:

    Up to £80 per hour

  • Contact:

    Jeffrey Barr

  • Email:

    Jeffrey.Barr@yolkrecruitment.com

  • Job ref:

    BBBH30332_1664983999

  • Published:

    over 1 year ago

  • Duration:

    12 Months

  • Expiry date:

    2022-11-02

  • Start date:

    ASAP

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

Lead Hardware Engineer (Satellite Digital Electronics) - £80 per hour - 12 months (extension highly likely) - Hertfordshire (3 days a week in the office) - Current SC Clearance required - Sector: Aerospace

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Lead Hardware Engineer (Satellite Digital Electronics) to work with a cutting-edge aerospace company. This role is the technical design authority for all areas of the equipment hardware design. This equipment includes digital processor and cryptographic equipment destined for Telecom and military payloads on various satellite platforms.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordination of all technical elements of the project, working with and overseeing the work of design engineers in the same functional team
  • Produce digital electronic board specifications, from product or architecture requirements
  • Define interfaces and digital parameters.
  • Consider switching speeds, pulses, rise and fall times, feedback and interference, impedance of devices, signal transmission
  • Define performance criteria and define how to prove validation and verification of performance with test strategy.
  • Produce and review circuit diagrams, iterating design where necessary due to circuit analysis outputs and PCB layout constraints.
  • Produce and review detailed design analysis e.g. WCA, PSA, FMECA/FMEA
  • Work closely with other engineering teams to support detailed design in CAD/CAM or VHDL implementation on component/ equipment/ mechanical/VHDL level in accordance with engineering design rules.
  • Interface with internal support functions e.g. radiation, thermal and mechanical design, EMC, parts procurement
  • Lead technical interface to external customer and suppliers
  • Provide progress updates to technical and project managers, provide inputs for scheduling and costing
  • Lead engineering investigations, troubleshooting and problem resolution activity

Core Skills:

  • High speed electronic circuit board specification, schematic capture, component selection and related analyses.
  • Lifecycle experience of digital equipments - design / manufacture / test, including customer interfacing.
  • Sector experience of aerospace, automotive or military production over five years
  • Hardware used - debug and test validation of designs
  • Software used - schematic capture, layout and simulation tools (e.g. Mentor Expedition)
  • Standards/accreditations/methodologies - ESA/ECSS and MIL Standards
  • Experience of team leadership, mentoring junior design engineers

Desirable Skills:

  • Space industry experience
  • Mentor DxDesigner.
  • Requirements management (DOORS) and SoC / RFD management.
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