Filtronic

Electrical Engineer

• **The Role**
• Reporting to the Head of Systems Engineering, you will play a key role in the **design and development of advanced analogue and digital electronic systems**.
• Working in a multidisciplinary environment, you will collaborate with RF, software, and firmware engineers to deliver high-performance solutions for applications including **telecommunications, space, defence, and high-altitude platforms**.
• This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of designs from **concept through to volume manufacture**, working with modern tools and innovative technologies.
• **Key Responsibilities:**
• **Electronic Design & Development**
• - Design and develop **analogue and digital electronic circuits**, including mixed-signal systems
• - Create signal conditioning circuits, filters, amplifiers, and power supply modules
• - Develop digital systems using **microprocessors, ADCs, DACs, and associated logic**
• - Produce detailed specifications, perform simulation, and support component selection
• - Capture schematics and define PCB requirements, including materials and stack-up
• **Systems Integration & Testing**
• - Work with interfaces such as **PCIe, USB, Ethernet, CAN bus, I²C, and SPI**
• - Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and communication issues
• - Perform **system-level integration, verification, and validation testing**
• - Prepare test specifications, reports, and reliability assessments
• **Collaboration & Continuous Improvement**
• - Collaborate across hardware, software, firmware, and RF teams
• - Participate in and lead **design reviews** to mitigate risks
• - Support product introduction, fault diagnosis, and diagnostic processes
• - Manage component obsolescence and recommend alternatives
• - Stay up to date with **emerging technologies and industry standards**
• **Reliability & Performance**
• - Conduct **thermal analysis, MTBF calculations, and tolerance analysis**
• - Ensure designs meet **performance, cost, quality, and manufacturability targets**

Senior Electronics Engineer

• Design and develop analogue and digital electronic circuits, including mixed-signal systems
• Create signal conditioning circuits, filters, amplifiers, and power supply modules
• Develop digital systems using microprocessors, ADCs, DACs, and associated logic
• Produce detailed specifications, perform simulation, and support component selection
• Capture schematics and define PCB requirements, including materials and stack-up
• Work with interfaces such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, CAN bus, I²C, and SPI
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and communication issues
• Perform system-level integration, verification, and validation testing
• Prepare test specifications, reports, and reliability assessments
• Collaborate across hardware, software, firmware, and RF teams
• Participate in and lead design reviews to mitigate risks
• Support product introduction, fault diagnosis, and diagnostic processes
• Manage component obsolescence and recommend alternatives
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry standards
• Conduct thermal analysis, MTBF calculations, and tolerance analysis
• Ensure designs meet performance, cost, quality, and manufacturability targets

Mechanical Engineer

• Design and layout advanced MMICs using technologies including GaAs, GaN and InP
• Develop high-performance:
• Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs)
• Power Amplifiers (PAs)
• Gain Blocks
• Up & Down Converters
• Variable Attenuators
• Frequency Multipliers
• Select appropriate semiconductor process technologies for new designs
• Carry out circuit simulation, optimisation and design verification
• Produce complete design documentation and support fabrication release
• Work closely with semiconductor foundries throughout development
• Perform thermal analysis, reliability (MTBF) assessments and validation testing
• Develop test specifications and characterise devices using our state-of-the-art RF laboratories
• Participate in and lead technical design reviews
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver products on time and to specification.

Senior MMIC Design Engineer

Project Manager

• Manage engineering projects throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Deliver projects to agreed scope, budget, quality and timescales.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement and Quality.
• Identify, manage and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Produce regular project reports, dashboards and performance metrics.
• Support customer meetings, programme reviews and technical discussions.
• Assist with project budgeting, forecasting and financial tracking.
• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication across all project teams.

Systems Engineer

• Design, develop and debug embedded software for real-world RF applications.
• Develop embedded software in C/C++ for ARM-based microcontrollers.
• Design software for bare-metal and real-time operating systems, including FreeRTOS and Zephyr.
• Bring up new hardware and debug prototype boards using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and software debugging tools.
• Develop robust communications between embedded devices using interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I²C, UART and RS422.
• Design networking functionality including TCP/IP, REST APIs, SNMP and OpenAPI interfaces.
• Work closely with hardware, FPGA and systems engineers to integrate software with complex electronic systems.
• Investigate and resolve software, networking and embedded system issues.
• Contribute throughout the full product development lifecycle from concept through to manufacture.

Embedded Software Engineer

Engineer

• Own PCB layout activities across complex electronic products and subsystems.
• Translate schematic designs into high-quality PCB layouts that meet electrical, mechanical, thermal and manufacturing requirements.
• Develop layouts considering impedance control, grounding, power distribution, thermal management and EMC performance.
• Support high-speed digital interfaces including Ethernet, DDR, LVDS, PCIe and JESD204.
• Generate complete fabrication, assembly and manufacturing documentation packages.
• Participate in design reviews, DFM/DFA assessments and engineering risk reviews.
• Verify component footprints, symbols and libraries against manufacturer datasheets.
• Support continuous improvement of Altium libraries, templates, design rules and PCB standards.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing partners to resolve design and production challenges.
• Support prototype build, bring-up and investigation of PCB-related issues.

PCB Engineer

• Architecting, developing, and maintaining subsystem firmware in Zephyr or bare-metal environments.
• Architecting, developing, and maintaining embedded Linux systems using Yocto.
• Supporting board bring-up, including diagnosis using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and software-based debugging techniques.
• Designing and maintaining board-to-board communication protocols.
• Designing and maintaining networking interfaces, including REST APIs, SNMP agents, and OpenAPI specifications.
• Implementing and debugging TCP/UDP communication layers, low-level networking behaviour, and protocol performance.
• Developing secure communication methods and applying best practices for authentication, encryption, secure OTA updates, and system hardening.
• Using tools such as Nmap, OpenVAS, Nessus, or similar to assess system vulnerabilities and improve security.
• Developing system services, daemons, device drivers, and communication middleware on embedded Linux.
• Leading troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for embedded networking and security issues.
• Defining embedded software requirements, interface specifications, and technical documentation.
• Working closely with hardware, FPGA, and systems engineers to ensure reliable and secure data and control flow.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Recruitment

• Support the Talent Partner to deliver a smooth and positive recruitment experience from sourcing through to onboarding
• Coordinate interviews and assessments
• Review applications
• Manage candidate communications
• Update the applicant tracking system
• Support sourcing activity across LinkedIn and job boards
• Contribute to STEM outreach, careers fairs, and early-careers initiatives, helping attract future engineering talent

Talent Acquisition Coordinator

Full-stack Engineer

• Support the introduction of new RF and microwave products into manufacturing, helping ensure they are robust, scalable and capable of meeting demanding performance requirements.
• Working closely with the Lead NPI Engineer, RF Design, Mechanical Engineering, Test, Quality and Manufacturing teams, you'll:
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) activities from prototype through to production release.
• Develop and optimise manufacturing processes for new products.
• Contribute to Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) activities.
• Analyse RF test data to improve product performance, manufacturing yield and process capability.
• Investigate manufacturing and RF performance issues using structured problem-solving techniques.
• Support production ramp-up and continuous improvement activities.
• Design and implement manufacturing tooling and fixtures where required.
• Produce clear technical documentation, manufacturing procedures and engineering reports.

Senior Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

Senior MMIC Design Engineer

Project Manager

Embedded Software Engineer

PCB Engineer

PCB Engineer

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Talent Acquisition Coordinator

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Senior NPI Engineer