Hybrid Hardware Development Engineer

at Nomad Digital

• Job title: Hardware Development Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Firewalls, Linux, Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Newcastle, United Kingdom

About the role

• Hardware Development Engineer overseeing product strategy and roadmap for railway industry solutions. Collaborating with teams to define and manage innovative networking solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Function as a bridge between business stakeholders, customers, and internal teams.
• Help define the HW strategy in alignment with the 3-year planned roadmap.
• Redact technical specification documentation for new and replacement of end-of-life HW.
• Follow-up the market, competitors and HW suppliers’ product roadmap.
• Gather inputs from customers, sales & service teams to identify significant requirements.
• Manage the product backlog and prioritize according to project and development priorities.
• Provide technical support to supplier selection & evaluation in collaboration with procurement and quality teams.
• Ensure products meet security, regulatory, and environmental compliance standards.
• Perform detailed inspections of initial production samples for design, quality, and performance specifications.
• Deliver and maintain documentation of all testing procedures, results, and FAI reports.
• Develop the necessary test plans for the hardware products: functional, performance & stress testing, new features, etc.
• Plan and/or execute the tests in line with plan.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or related fields.
• Qualified in networking to a formal qualification CCNA, CCDP, CCNP, WSCTA or equivalent.
• Qualification in network security and/or ethical hacking would be an advantage.
• 3–5+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Owner, or Engineering role within networking/IT infrastructure and with Network Hardware – Switches, Routers and Access Points.
• Solid understanding of Ethernet switching and routing (L2/L3), VLANs, STP, PoE, QoS, multicast, etc.
• Knowledge of Wi-Fi standards (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), RF fundamentals, and wireless security.
• Familiarity with network management platforms, cloud-managed networking, and SDN concepts.
• A basic understanding of electronic design techniques, as well as electronics production, to a level that enables the review of specific design requirements and the evaluation of product quality in accordance with IPC standards.
• Experience setting up office LAN/WAN end-to-end, including security considerations, segregation services on VLAN’s L3 routing, Iptables/Firewalls, net filtering, logging, proxy server and VPN.
• Extensive experience configuring and managing network devices from multiple vendors.
• Experience in the configuration of Wi-Fi access points/client bridges, Ethernet switches and routers.
• Experience working in a Linux environment.
• Knowledge of Linux OpenWRT distribution is a real advantage.
• Experience of network monitoring and management tools used to capture and analyse performance and behaviour e.g. Wireshark.
• Design specification experience for Hardware products.
• Fluent in English language, written and verbal.
• Experience using Microsoft Office products.

Benefits

• flexible working arrangements