Senior Design Engineer - Digital (f/m/d) - #1716886

RC Fornax are looking for a Senior Test Enginee r to join the Radar Test Equipment delivery team at our customer site in Edinburgh. In this role, you will develop hardware-based equipment that will perform various testing, from design verification through acceptance to repair on our range of Radar products.

Skills

Have a degree in Electronic Engineering / related science or equivalent work experience.

Be able to self-manage, self-motivate and be looking to continuously develop.

Have the ability to analyse system level documents and derive detailed unit requirements under own initiative.

Be able to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form.

Be willing to work on your own or as part of a team to resolve technical issues.

Have a methodical and thorough approach to hardware design.

Be able to interface with suppliers of key components and assemblies

Desirable

Experience of designing solutions for one or more of the following technologies:

Radio Frequency/Microwave/Antenna

Digital and/or Analogue

Power Supplies

High Speed Digital Interfacing

Common interfaces i.e. RS422, 1553, I2C/SPI, Ethernet

Knowledge of Requirements management tools such as DOORS.

Responsibilities

Design and development across the full lifecycle from requirements analysis; through conceptual, preliminary and detailed design, procurement and manufacturing support; to integrating the hardware with the hosted software and firmware; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to the customer.

As a design engineer, you will be responsible for creating high quality and robust data packs; for fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and reports on progress to your line manager.

Completing tasks in accordance with appropriate processes and procedures.

Taking an active role in engineering process improvement.

You will work closely with Software and Firmware engineers to solve real integration problems at system level.

Dependent on experience, you may also:

Provide technical direction for the design, as well as guidance to the wider Test Equipment team.

Be responsible for project deliverables.

Mentor, coach and teach other engineers within the team.

Review engineering estimates of tasks incorporating advice on how to reduce cost and timescale, increase compliance and reduce technical risk to inform bids and estimates to complete.

Lead the technical direction and provide the oversight needed for the engineering team to achieve technically compliant work packages.

Act as the domain expert in support of customer and user engagement understanding their requirements in the context of the solution