Hardware Engineer - #2162127

Hardware Engineer | Edinburgh | £33-43k + shares DOE

A highly innovative deep tech start up near Edinburgh developing truly one-of-a-kind technology that exists nowhere else is looking for a hardware engineer.

This opportunity is the best way to kickstart your career. You'll get real ownership over advanced projects, be trained in highly in demand skills, and work in an environment where you can see the impact of your work in real time.

If you're interested in getting hands on with FPGA, analogue & digital design, embedded systems, Python automation, verification & testing, and true R&D, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and validate high-speed digital electronics, FPGA solutions, embedded software and application software.
• Build and automate product testing and characterisation using Python, developing repeatable test plans and customer-facing technical reports.
• Support customers and partners with technical evaluations, demonstrations, training, integration and first-line technical support.
• Represent the company at customer sites, trade shows and industry events, feeding customer insight back into product development and engineering

Technical Requirements

• Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related subject, with some relevant industry, internship or project experience.
• Exposure to electronics design, including schematic capture (e.g. Altium/OrCAD) and hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging and rework.
• Experience or academic/project exposure to C, Python and FPGA design, with an understanding of software development practices.

Personal Requirements

• Fast learner and naturally inquisitive, able to quickly understand new technologies and apply them practically.
• Proactive, reliable and adaptable, with the confidence to work autonomously in a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong communicator who can translate technical problems between customer engineering teams and internal engineering.

Bonus Skills

• Experience working across the hardware/software interface, particularly where system constraints and interfaces are critical.
• Exposure to high-speed digital design or FPGA development.
• Experience with automated testing, technical documentation, specifications or customer-facing engineering.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with the most bleeding-edge technologies
• Share options
• 25 days holiday which increases year on year
• Competitive pension scheme

Ready to truly kickstart your career working on the newest technology in a fast-paced environment? Apply today!