Senior/Principle Electronic Design Engineer

Senior/Principle Electronic Design Engineer 

 Job Description: 

Do you want to help deliver cutting edge high fidelity thermal imaging and airborne sensor products? 

Due to the growth of the business area, Leonardo have an opportunity for an Electronic Design Engineer to join our Sensors Team.  

This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and grow their skills and knowledge within a thriving organisation. 

If successful, you will be joining a dedicated multi-disciplined Integrated Project Team (IPT) with a full and stretching workload presenting vast potential for personal growth and professional development. 

What you will do 

Supporting our precision guidance (PG) programmes, you will support new designs undertaking the following activities. 

• Requirement definition and support to generation of verification plans 
• Electronic design analysis, circuit simulation and prototyping 
• Electronic schematic capture and PCB layout support 
• Power supply and interface circuit design for digital processors and microcontrollers 
• High-speed digital design – including FPGA, DDR and high speed LVDS video designs 
• Testing and debugging of electronic circuits 
• Development of subsystem engineering solutions and specifications 
• Cabling and connector specifications 
• Integration and Verification of System and Sub-Systems 
• Support to Qualification (including EMC) 
• Production and Delivery support 

This vacancy presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and grow their skills and knowledge within a thriving organisation. In this broad electronic engineering role, you will work across a range of projects throughout various stages of the product lifecycle from initial concept development through to early life production support and on to support of existing fielded designs. 

What we need from you 

What you really must have: 

• Knowledge and experience of all stages of the engineering development lifecycle 

Experience of: 

• Digital & Analogue Electronic design knowledge 
• Board level PCB design (ideally using Siemens EDA Xpedition Enterprise) 
• Operating at the product system level 
• Specifying and defining COTS items 
• Working with subcontract suppliers 
• Specifying cable and connector solutions 
• System level integration 
• Ability to make technical decisions within own sphere of responsibility 
• Willingness to work proactively within a fast moving and dynamic environment 

It would be nice if you had: 

• Safety, Security and other legislative constraints knowledge 
• Domain experience in Electronics Warfare and Thermal Imaging Systems 

You must be capable of achieving full SC security clearance and will require access to caveated information such as UK eyes only. 

For more information and guidance please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels