Electronics Design Engineer

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Job Title: Electronics Design Engineer
Location: Great Yarmouth
Salary: 55k + Bonus
Technique Recruitment Solutions are proud to be working on behalf of our client whom specialise in the design, development, manufacture, and commissioning of advanced side scan, bathymetry, and sub-bottom profiling sonar-systems.
Benefits

Excellent remuneration
25 days holiday allowance plus statutory bank holidays
Flexi-time with the ability to take an additional day’s leave each month
Private medical insurance for family
Worldwide Travel insurance for employee + partner
Pension with matched contributions up to 8%
Death in service benefit
Sick pay
Bike to work scheme
Employee assistance scheme
Free electric vehicle charging on site
Annual bonus based on Company profit

About the Role
You will be part of a design team working on our next generation of sonar instrumentation
Main responsibilities:

Develop and enhance electronic SONAR products in line with target product specifications
Creation of Schematics & multi-layer PCB designs, verified by electronic modelling / simulation and testing
Testing, defect failure analysis / root cause analysis and repair of existing systems
Conducting design reviews at key stages of design & development and test
Collaborating as part of the team, submitting designs for review and providing peer review input to other engineers’ designs
Producing and maintaining product documentation, including detailed BoMs, Gerbers, validating fabrication & engineering drawings, writing production assembly guides, test procedures and user manuals
Performing new product evaluations and reviews including acoustic measurements to ensure that product meets or exceeds their specification
Providing technical product support to staff and worldwide customers on site or remotely. This may require occasional travel within UK and overseas to support them
Working with 3rd parties during design, prototyping and manufacturing

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Degree or equivalent qualifications or experience in electrical and electronic engineering
A minimum of 3 years’ experience designing electronics products and embedded pc systems
Design and testing mixed signal products that include SOC, FPGA’s, control & logic systems, switching power supplies, analogue amplifiers, isolated systems and transducer power driver stages

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