Electronics Design Engineer

Role scope; Responsible for electronic content of products, including system architecture, circuit design, integration, and lifecycle support. Accountable for system-level decisions, design integrity, and practical delivery. System integration - Working with mechanical designers to ensure designs are practical and manufacturable - Contributing to whole-product design decisions Core Responsibilities - Define system architecture from incomplete or evolving requirements - Design analogue and digital circuits, including control, power, and communications - Produce and review schematics, PCB layouts, and supporting documentation - Balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability - Identify technical risks early and implement mitigation - Support prototype bring-up, debugging, validation, and production introduction Standards and Quality requirements - Ensure designs meet regulatory, safety, EMC, and reliability expectations - Maintains traceability of decisions and produces samples suitable for peer review and audit - Fulfills electronic role responsibility to the product technical file Design and development - Circuit design from first principles - Component selection based on long-term availability and robustness - PCB layout (including thermal management and EMC compliance) - Prototype build, test and iteration - Managing timeline targets across multiple, concurrent, developments Product lifecycle management - Maintaining existing designs - Obsolescence management and redesign where required - Supporting continuity of supply when components become unavailable - Improving existing products as technology changes Testing and validation - Define and carry out testing appropriate to product use - Prioritise reliability and longevity over cost - Identify and remove failure modes early - Write simple firmware for prototyping and diagnostics - Use external specialists where appropriate - Review and challenge external software design Work standards - Products work first time, are buildable, suit user skill level and are reliable - Designs tolerate variation in use and environmental requirements - Selected components have a robust supply chain, or alternative flexibility is designed in - Problems are understood and solved, not worked around - Cost is managed, but never at the expense of reliability - Prioritisation of robustness - Incomplete information and ambiguity is solved through solution based outcomes - Solutions follow practical principles, not unneeded feature proliferation - Designs are buildable, testable, and supportable - Contributing to a safe working environment Collaboration - With mechanical, firmware, and production functions to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable - Engages suppliers and specialists while retaining technical ownership Reporting and structure - Reports to: Design Manager - Works alongside electrical and mechanical design, production & purchasing