Job Description:

Hardware Design Engineer - 3 positions available

12 months

Full time on site - ME1 (Rochester, Kent)

£80 per hour (inside IR35) - This is negotiable

Join our client and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

This role focuses on delivering complex hardware design activities in line with development plans, budgets and schedules. It includes capturing requirements, producing preliminary and detailed designs, and performing the necessary analysis to ensure robust solutions. The position encourages innovation by identifying improvements to both design approaches and wider engineering practices, while working collaboratively with other disciplines to optimise system level outcomes and manage dependencies effectively.

Alongside technical delivery, the role provides guidance and support across digital and analogue electronics development, helping ensure high quality engineering outputs. It also involves coaching junior engineers to build capability within the team and producing design artefacts that meet company and industry standards.

• 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
• Requirements management and verification skills
• Circuit analysis , FMEA and Stress and derating

Knowledge:

• You will have proven knowledge and experience of digital &/or analogue electronics technologies
• You will have experience of working through the engineering development lifecycle, from concept to product certification
• You will have a robust understanding of product design and work package control
• Ability to demonstrate a good appreciation of cost and schedule constraints on designs, to meet programme needs
• Familiarity with Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise, Simetrix, LT Spice tools

Skills:

• You will have the ability to demonstrate a good appreciation of cost and schedule constraints on designs, to meet programme needs and capable of providing robust engineering judgement in all phases of the engineering development lifecycle
• It is also desirable to have experience of Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise, Analogue simulations tools, such as Simetrix or Spice and System development tools, such as Enterprise Architect, Matlab, Simulink