The Senior Principal Electronics Engineer will report to the Baseband Team Leader and would be involved in the whole lifecycle of product development from concept and prototype stages, through to production and support.
As a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer you will have demonstrable experience of leading and owning the design of electronic systems. The right candidate will have a strong background in digital electronics design from initial concept, specification, and design through to software and systems integration, test, and manufacture. They will also enjoy problem solving, be a good communicator and will mentor less experienced engineers.
Main Duties
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Requirements analysis and understanding including liaison with stakeholders
- Technical design and specification of digital baseband circuitry for radio and accessory products
- Complete subsystem design and implementation, including subsystem ownership.
- Integration with RF, Audio and MMI subsystems.
- Component specification and sourcing
- Design, integration and test documentation
- Definition, implementation and supervision of PCB layout rules and constraints
- Resolution of design and integration issues
- Interaction with the SW team at device driver level (especially during bring-up phases)
- Type approval support • Production technical support including sub system test strategy.
- Technical support to end customers.
- Progress reporting to project team and line manager.
- Support, lead and mentor members of the project team.
- Conducts requirements analysis to identify technical solutions and credible development estimates for significant product change.
- Lead technical recruitment interviews.
- Takes responsibility for the creation of functional and detailed design documents for the components / modules / products under development.
- May line manage a small team.
What you need to succeed
Qualifications (essential): Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in relevant field.
Experience and skills:
- Minimum 12 years electronics design experience in a development environment. Skills: (essential)
- Experience with microprocessor and microcontroller designs
- Experience with memory sub-systems – e.g. DDR, NAND, eMMC
- Experience of communication interfaces and buses – USB, SPI, I2C,MIPI
- Low power circuit design for battery powered products
- Experience interacting with SW teams at the device driver level
- Design for EMC/ESD protection
- Design for Manufacturing and Test (desirable)
- Design work relating to radio products
- Experience of designing for signal integrity
- Experience with signal and power integrity simulation tools (e.g. Hyperlynx, Sigrity, ADS, etc.)
- Experience of high-speed communications interfaces and buses – e.g. Gigabit Ethernet, USB3.0, PCIe etc
- Design for medium volume product manufacture Attitude (essential)
- Communicates effectively with others across multiple disciplines
- Works well in a small focussed team, sometimes against tight deadlines
- Conscientious, reliable and enthusiastic worker who takes pride in their work
- Self-driven and motivated with ability to use own initiative and take a technical lead
- Ability to work to a high level of quality with good attention to detail.
- Willingness to continually learn
Your Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Pension, dental and health care schemes
- Discounted gym membership
- Subsidised on site restaurant
- Large car park and the availability of electric car charging points
- Social events and activities
To apply, please forward your CV to: careers@sepura.com
We look forward to hearing from you!