Senior Principal Hardware Engineer

Principal Hardware Engineer

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Location: Rochester, full time on site

Rate: £69.72 ph PAYE (£79.86 ph inclusive of holiday pay) or £94.24 p/h Umbrella

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Duration: 12 Months initial

As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety-critical technology.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with leading, innovating cutting edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.

Typical duties include:

• Executing complex hardware design tasks in accordance with the hardware development plan, whilst meeting agreed timescales and allocated budgets
• Conducting hardware requirements capture, preliminary design, detailed design including a range of analysis tasks
• Adopting an innovative approach to design and identifying improvements to working practices
• Working with other disciplines within an integrated team to optimise solutions and minimise impacts from dependencies
• Providing technical guidance and support to the development and delivery of all aspects of digital &/or analogue electronics solutions.
• Coaching & developing the skills of junior team members
• Delivering design artefacts in accordance with company and industry standards

Key Skillset

Knowledge:

• Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise
• Analogue simulations tools, e.g. Simetrix or Spice
• Timing designer tools, e.g. Chronology
• Signal integrity tools and principles
• System development tools, e.g. Enterprise Architect, Matlab, Simulink
• Requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS
• Proven ability working on safety critical systems.

Skills:

• Working knowledge and experience of digital &/or analogue electronics technologies
• Experience of working through the full engineering development lifecycle, from concept to product certification
• Ability to demonstrate a good appreciation of cost and schedule constraints on designs, to meet programme needs
• Capable of providing robust engineering judgement in all phases of the engineering development lifecycle.
• Robust understanding of product design and work package control. xwzovoh
• Proven ability in digital &/or analogue electronics technologies.