Job vacancy - Digital Electronics Design Engineer
Position: Digital Electronics Design Engineer
Reference: acsIPAdigelecdeseng
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: Dependent on experience
Job Title: Digital Electronics Design Engineer
Do you have the minimum Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, ideally specialising in FPGA/Digital Techniques? Do you have 5 years or more design experience? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly experienced team of people and company.
Main Purpose:
To support R&D Engineering in developing best in class, complex high speed digital PCB assemblies for high reliability applications. Utilising the latest FPGAs, Microprocessors and high speed interconnects.
Main Responsibilities - Duties
- Responsible for the creation of FPGA designs using VHDL and working within a structured FPGA design framework.
- Design digital state machine architectures and logic circuits.
- Assist manufacturing to resolve technical problems as required.
- To provide assistance to other departments in order to meet overall Company objectives
- Schematic Capture using Zuken CadStar.
- Analogue design skills using DSP, FPGA, PLO, DAC/ADC SDRAM & SPI devices.
- Performing design analysis, i.e. parts stress and worst case.
- Work in a multi-functional department supporting RF, Mechanical and Production Engineers.
- Analyse, decompose and identify work breakdown for complex technical interface requirements.
- Support software development Engineers to ensure system operation meets specification.
- Support Project Management in customer meetings and design reviews.
- To develop and maintain strong working relationships with other team members within Manufacturing, Engineering and Quality functions.
- Supervise and guide Technicians engaged in evaluation of hardware and subsystems.
- To understand and work to clearly defined goals with respect to quality, output, timescale and program costs.
- Generate and review product and project design documentation.
- Support Business development in generating customer quotes and proposals.
- To ensure that all Environmental Health and Safety / Company Policies are adhered to at all times.
- Attend departmental meetings as required.
- To provide assistance to other departments in order to meet overall Company objectives
Education/ Experience:
- Minimum Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, ideally specialising in FPGA/Digital Techniques.
- 5 years or more design experience
- Knowledge of RF Design techniques an advantage.
- Worked with Development Engineering and Manufacturing groups to transition product into production
- Previous experience within UK Aerospace and Defence contractors an advantage
- Will be eligible to obtain UK Secret Security Clearance / UK Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs.
Key Competencies:
- Experience of the complete hardware design cycle, from requirements capture, through schematic design and constraints capture
- Knowledge of RTL in VHDL using Altera or Xilinx IDE environments.
- Experienced in high speed digital and mixed signal circuit design.
- Generation of test Benches in VHDL for validation and verification of VHDL designs using ModelSim IDE.
- Familiarity with boundary scan utilities to support JTAG testing and debug.
- Familiarity of the main DSP families & development of embedded code in C++
- Experienced in bring-up and debug of high density digital hardware including BGA and multilayer PCB.
- Working knowledge of serial interfaces such as RS485, RS422, MLVDS, etc…
- Knowledge of RADAR subsystems and beamforming an advantage.
- Commissioning of prototype designs at board and unit level.
ACS are recruiting for a Digital Electronics Design Engineer If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Digital Electronics Design Engineer please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Digital Electronics Design Engineer It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as a Digital Electronics Design Engineer with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Digital Electronics Design Engineer role you desire.