About the role

Lead Hardware Engineer in the delivery of high-performance hardware for Surveillance RADAR systems. Experience the full engineering lifecycle while contributing to innovative solutions and integration support.

Responsibilities

Approving and owning work package plans associated with the allocation and deployment of team members and workload at with suitable milestones to enable effective Engineering and business reporting.
Risk Analysis of Work Packages advising of risk and suggesting mitigation plans where required.
Giving overall direction to the team advising on technical specialism, domain expertise, engineering process and tool use as required.
Being responsible for ensuring the team deliver technically sound solutions meeting all stakeholder requirements.
Resolving of complex multidisciplinary issues raised from within and outside of engineering.
Resolving non-routine issues by making proposals and driving solutions through.
Creating a culture to generate innovative ideas and solutions to local team and wider business problems.
Promoting a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation both within a local team, wider business and across Engineering Units.
Contributing to local team, engineering unit, and product decision-making at a programme level.
Giving experienced guidance to the local team on through life cost of ownership requirements and issues.

Higher education approved STEM qualification at degree level as a minimum or equivalent as recognised by professional accreditation schemes.
Circuit design (schematic capture) layout and simulation practitioner experience.
Mixed signal knowledge using ADC/DAC, FPGA, SoC based design for high performance signal processing, communications and control.
Integrating in-house designs with COTS modules (power supplies, single board computers, RF interfaces).
Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to Hardware designs.
Hands on experience of Hardware, Firmware & Software Integration of Micro Processor Based designs onto hardware platforms is essential.
Debugging, testing and verification of new designs and supporting their commissioning and integration into the target system.
Ability to liaise with suppliers of key components and assemblies.

Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.