Senior Electrical Engineer
Universal Electronics
ERP
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Provide PCB design services to client in Stevenage for cutting-edge defence products
- Generate PCB designs across all phases of the development programme
- Create new components and add to client library
- Perform component placement balancing multiple requirements
- Generate routing while minimising noise/EMI
- Implement strategies for thermal management
- Adhere to specific client design rules and PCB manufacturer capabilities to ensure high yield
- Collaborate with mechanical designers to ensure electronics and mechanical parts are manufacturable
Requirements
- Degree level qualification in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (HNC/HND acceptable with significant demonstrable experience)
- Extensive experience in PCB design delivering complex boards
- Proficiency using Zuken CR-8000 (essential)
- Familiarity with high ball count BGA and modern component packages
- Experience delivering high-reliability electronics for hostile environments (aerospace, military, marine, rail)
- Understands and ensures trace width and spacing for current and interference
- Ability to optimise designs for manufacturing & assembly (DFM/DFA) and for test (DFT)
- Maintain consistency in component orientation to reduce assembly errors
- Place board-to-wire and board-to-board connectors appropriately
- Group components by function to simplify routing and shorten trace lengths
- Correct placement of decoupling capacitors and segregation of analogue/digital circuits
- EMI/EMC considerations: solid ground planes and shielding strategies
- Thermal management: locate high-power components and transfer heat away from components/board
- Routing high-speed signals with uninterrupted ground planes and controlled impedance
- Understands layer stack design criteria
- UK sole National SC Clearance (required)
- Ability and willingness to travel to and work on the client site at Stevenage 3 days per week
