Description: The position of Senior Electronic Design Engineer is permanent, full time and available immediately. 

Location: Based at Head Office in Northwich, Cheshire with opportunities for hybrid working.

We are looking for a competent, experienced, professional Design Engineer who is able to work independently in a small multi-disciplinary team. 

A positive attitude is essential, as is flexibility, creativity and pragmatism, combined with an in depth understanding of real world solutions. 

Our R&D team is on a hybrid model with a mix of home- and office-based working, requirements & arrangements for which can be discussed prior to appointment.

Minimum Requirements:

• A degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering or related discipline
• Proven experience of PCB design from concept & specification development, development of solutions, selection of components, through schematic capture and PCB layout (Ideally using KiCad)
• Experience of building, testing, debugging prototypes and early production models.  Use of scopes, bus analysers, etc
• Software/firmware experience would be useful, but as a minimum basic software and firmware skills for commissioning of hardware are essential
• Excellent spoken and written English

Desirable Requirements:

Experience of the following would be extremely useful:

• KiCad schematic and PCB layout
• STM32 Cortex M4
• Bluetooth & WiFi modules
• USB 3 Type-C including Power Delivery control via STUSB or similar modules
• Li-Ion battery charging and management and mobile power considerations
• Switch mode power supply design
• Electronic Simulation, e.g. LTSpice
• Digital/Analog signal conditioning
• Control circuitry, load drivers, stepper motor control
• I2C, SPI, UART, USB data interfaces
• Design for EMC and other certifications (e.g. CE, LVD, CB, FCC, UL, CCC, etc).  Experience of formal testing extremely useful
• Capable of ‘bringing up prototype hardware’, and be comfortable using scopes, bus analysers, etc
• Building, testing, debugging prototypes and early production models
• Lateral thinking, problem solving skills and extremely good attention to detail
• Design of test equipment and procedures for high reliability production of volume parts
• Software and firmware for real-time and mobile systems
• C, C++, Python
• Source Control, e.g. GIT, subversion
• Collaboration tools, e.g. Confluence
• Experience of Windows App, Android, iOS or other mobile application development would be useful

Able offers:

• A 37.5 hour working week
• A contributory pension scheme
• Tax-free bonus scheme
• Death in service benefit
• Free parking
• Some flexibility in working hours and hybrid working (negotiable)
• A friendly relaxed atmosphere where everyone is focused on creating excellent products

To apply for this position, please send your CV for review to recruitment@able-systems.com