Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer

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Job Description:

The opportunity:

We are looking for an experienced Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineers to join the GCAP development team in Leonardo, to work at the either Edinburgh or Newcastle site. GCAP is an exciting new project team designing a new radar sensor. You will be working within a multi-disciplined delivery team with responsibility across the full engineering lifecycle from requirements capture to final delivery. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to join a highly skilled team at a time of significant growth of the GCAP programme.

What you'll do as a Principal High Speed Digital Electronics Engineer:

This is an exciting opportunity for you as an experienced engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will:

Designing high speed digital Printed Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, microprocessor and high-speed interconnect technologies

Supporting throughout the full hardware lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, and unit test; to integrating hardware with the target system; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to customer

Fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports

Working within a multi-disciplined team of engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems

What we need from you:

Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics)

Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to hardware designs

Schematic capture experience

Design of high-speed serial communication links and knowledge of associated protocols and architectures

Hands on experience of hardware, firmware & software integration of microprocessor-based designs onto hardware platforms is essential

A methodical approach to the full hardware design lifecycle, working to a structured hardware process

Debugging, testing and verification of new designs and supporting their commissioning and integration in...