Hardware Engineer Jobs

A Hardware Design Engineer is needed by a client within a telecomms sector. The ideal candidate will hold good understanding of analogue and digital fundamentals and demonstrable product design experience.

• Familiarity with microcontroller and microprocessor designs
• Memory system design (SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM) and timing
• Designing with programmable logic and using hardware description languages, particularly has to be fluent in VHDL or Verilog and must be able to take over previous VHDL based designs and enhance or modify as required.
• Design for reliability - taking into account worst case timing, noise, cross-talk, transmission line effects etc.
• Schematic capture (eg using OrCAD or Mentor Graphics tools).
• Experience of PCB layouts, and ensuring that sufficient information and guidance is provided to the PCB layout engineers for the PCB to be fit for purpose without unnecessary iterations.
• Testing and de-bugging of hardware using the right tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
• Specification and documentation of hardware designs to enable others to understand review and test them.
• Producing documentation to release to Manufacturing (BoMs, GAs, Schematics etc).
• Experience of design for EMC/ESD compliance.
• Strong IT skills, proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint or a technical drawing package such as Visio or EasyCAD.

Desirable Skills:
• High-speed design knowledge, especially layout for high-speed.
• Knowledge of networking and protocols including ISDN, VoIP, Ethernet, Bridges, Routers, Switches, X.25, Serial Interfaces etc.
• Working to formal quality assurance procedures.
• Knowledge of Freescale processors, PowerPC, Ethernet controllers.
• Simulation experience, such analogue simulation

Please send a current copy of your CV saved in MS Word format to info@Nicholas-Blake.com