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Hardware Design Engineer

Job description

Hardware Design Engineer

Cambridge

£50,000 - £60,000

Permanent

The organisation

A security tech company, offering solutions to sensitive information in the information technology space, based in some of the most beautiful offices you’ll ever see for a modern work - space. This a company responsible for millions of people’s hardware information, so as you can imagine the complexity of some of their software is impressive. You’ll be working with some awesome tech, giving people the chance to explore varied career paths in a challenging and rewarding international

 

The role

You’ll be a key part in the design, implementation, test and review of new hardware designs and in maintaining the company’s existing high-quality security product hardware platforms.

What you get in return

You’ll be working with an international organisation, based in some truly amazing offices. As the team continue to grow, they want you to have a rewarding and varied career path, and so are open to allowing you to move into different industries or parts of the business, placing real emphasis on internal promotions. The salary is up to £60,000, an 8 – 10 % bonus, 10% pension, 28 days holiday (not including bank holidays) flexi working, health insurance and private healthcare.

Technical Requirements

Demonstrable experience of high-speed digital design on high performance embedded systems

Experience developing products with 32- or 64-bit processors, DSP's, FPGA's, ASSP's and high-speed memory devices

The ability to analyse complex technical problems and offer innovative, reasoned and practical solutions to demanding requirements

Experience with high speed interface technologies, DDR3, 4, LP, PCIe, SAS, 10G Ethernet

Experience with microcontroller development and efficient low power design techniques

Appreciation of the fundamentals of analogue, RF, electro-mechanical and mechanical engineering

Experience of signal integrity analysis, design for EMC, safety and relevant regulatory standards

Experience of design for manufacture, test and support

Experience of professional ECAD systems – ideally Altium

Good understanding of Engineering standards and processes

Able to achieve at least Baseline Security Clearance

Ideally, experience of design and implementation of hardware architectures for security products

Ideally, an appreciation of developing physical tamper solutions, including security analyses

Call to action

So, if you like the ad, or you’d at least like to know some more, what’s next? You have 3 options….

Number 1: Click the little apply button (don’t worry, we’ll discuss before your CV or application goes anywhere)

Number 2: You can call for James Bokhorst on 07708899199

Number 3: You can find me on LinkedIn, trust me there’s not many people with the surname Bokhorst