Electronic Design Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer - Permanent - Hampshire (hybrid/on-site)

A Hampshire-based aerospace business is looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer to lead hands-on design and development of avionics electronics for an unmanned aircraft platform. You'll own designs from first principles through prototype build, qualification, and support into production - working closely with systems, software, mechanical and manufacturing teams.

What you'll be doing

Design & develop avionics electronics (analog, digital and power) for aerospace hardware

Take designs from concept to product: robust, scalable, mass-producible and cost-optimised

Support qualification / certification activities to standards such as DO-160 / DO-254 and associated test regimes

Work with compliance/regulatory needs (including SORA) and environmental qualification (e.g. IP68 style requirements)

Support integration, field trials and flight test activities (UAVs and subsystem prototypes)

Partner with manufacturing on production support, troubleshooting and continuous improvement

Contribute to R&D workstreams advancing platform capability

What they're looking for

Degree: 2:1 or above in a STEM discipline

Strong practical experience across electronics design, prototyping, and productisation

Experience in some/all of:

SPICE modelling / simulation

Component selection + schematic capture

Multi-layer PCB design for high-reliability applications

EMC/EMI-aware design techniques

Altium Designer (preferred, not essential)

Useful / nice-to-have:

Embedded C/C++ (ideally STM32 or similar)

Python (or scripting) for tooling, test, automation

Hands-on skills: soldering, cable assembly, prototype bring-up

UAV / flight-test exposure

Personal attributes

Strong problem-solving, comfortable delivering under pressure

Clear communicator with good documentation and stakeholder management

Proactive, organised, happy to lead multidisciplinary activity

Interest in aviation/autonomy and advanced aerospace tech...