Senior Principal Electrical Engineer
Medtronic
Hardware Design Engineer
ZeroAvia
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Design, develop, integrate and verify reliable power, analogue and mixed-signal airborne electronics for avionics, mission computing and embedded systems
- Take ownership from schematic capture to PCB layout, component selection, and manufacturing handoff following aerospace-standard processes
- Produce and maintain documentation for traceability, compliance, configuration control and reviews; address findings and perform follow-up activities
- Conduct hands-on testing: build harnesses and test rigs; use oscilloscopes, DMMs, VNAs and spectrum analysers to commission and verify designs
- Collaborate with Systems, Mechanical, Software teams and stakeholders to support HW circuit card integration
- Support compliance with DO-254 objectives for simple and complex electronic hardware, including verification and validation activities
- Conduct risk assessments and contribute to continuous improvement of ZeroAvia's standards
- Support qualification and environmental testing requirements (EMC, etc.) and prepare hardware for certification
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ Years Hardware Development Experience
- Proficient in Altium Designer or Mentor Siemens EDA
- Proficient in modelling electronic circuits using SPICE-based simulation tools (e.g., LTSpice, Simetrix)
- Experience with schematic capture through PCB layout and component selection
- Hands-on testing skills: Oscilloscope, DMM, VNAs, spectrum analysers; build harnesses and test rigs
- Knowledge of SPI, I2C, RS485, Ethernet and CAN physical implementation and signal integrity practices
- Strong understanding of electrical safety (creepage and clearance, insulation requirements)
- Strong understanding of low-level analogue circuit design and digital signal processing
- Experience designing and implementing data acquisition systems
- Proven experience working with microcontrollers and digital signal processing
- Strong understanding of qualification and environmental requirements for electronics (EMC testing)
- Familiarity with DO-254 design plan objectives and activities for electronic hardware
- Experience working in a Design Organisation Approval (DOA) (desired)
- Design experience against IEC 60664, DO-160 or MIL-STD-810 (desired)
- Familiarity with low and high voltage systems (up to 1.5KV) (desired)
- Experience in designing airborne electronics hardware (desired)
- Strong communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills
- Maintain documentation for traceability, compliance, and configuration control
