Hardware Engineer

Hardware Engineer
Location: Derby
Salary: £35,000 to £65,000 (depending on experience)
Our client, a world class innovator, plays a vital role in designing, manufacturing, supplying, and providing continuous support throughout the lifespan of nuclear propulsion products and systems. This contribution is crucial for sustaining the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet and overseeing the management throughout their entire lifecycle.
A role in submarines’ presents the chance to engage in every stage of the product life cycle, addressing technical challenges in diverse digital, software, programmable, hardware, and electronics technologies, systems, and applications.
You will work within the safety critical hardware development team across all phases of product design lifecycles. The team uses agile SCRUM methods to develop high integrity products adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills needed to develop requirements, architectures, and designs for controls applications essential for the protection and monitoring of nuclear propulsion plant.
In addition to design activities, you will be engaged in the integration of programmable parts on to existing hardware products and you will define and carry out platform integration testing on a range of products.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Hardware Engineer, you will follow a process driven Hardware development lifecycle to deliver customer needs by:
* Obtaining high-level hardware requirements using DOORS.
* Architecting Hardware solutions.
* Defining low level requirements and detailed designs.
* Designing circuits, selecting components and capturing schematics.
* Integrating of software and programmable hardware onto hardware platforms.
* Defining and carrying out detailed integration testing.
* Developing automated testing procedures.
* Managing change control and configuration management.
You will also be:
* Engaged in problem solving.
* Required to demonstrate process adherence and solution correctness.
* Engaged in continued improvement of hardware development process, for cost and timescale reduction and quality improvement.
* Supporting process and technical audits, and product design reviews.
* Liaising with software, systems, programmable hardware, and safety teams.
Requirements
* Degree Level or HND level in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
* Motivated and enthusiastic to become familiar with new techniques and tools.
* Experienced in talented hardware engineering.
* Experienced in digital electronics design.
* Experience in real-time systems.
* Awareness of safety critical development constraints.
* Experience in programmable logic device design.
Benefits:
Embrace an inclusive, digital-first culture at this company, where a commitment to your development, continuous learning, and a multitude of career growth opportunities awaits.
The comprehensive package includes outstanding developmental resources, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits such as:
* Competitive salary and bonuses
* Training and Progression
* Pension
* Overtime
* Employee discounts
Candidates will need to be eligible for SC clearance