Senior Electronics Engineer – Integrated Circuit Design

Overview

As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will drive the end-to-end hardware development from concept to production. You will operate within an R&D team delivering complex instruments for defence and security applications, leveraging rapid design cycles. You will implement designs, document results, run hardware tests, and enable prototype-to-production transitions. This role combines hands-on problem solving with collaboration to deliver impactful sensing and communications technologies.

Pay / Benefits

• performance bonus
• free lunches
• market-leading pension plan
• career progression
• collaboration culture
• self-development support

Responsibilities

• Design and develop hardware from idea to manufacture across the product lifecycle
• Capture requirements, document, test, and deliver prototypes to production using rapid design methods
• Work on complex defence and security instruments including communications, satellite tech and RADAR systems
• Perform hardware-level debugging and support simulations/testbenches
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and maintain security clearance as required
• Contribute to documentation and design iterations for manufacturability and reliability

Key requirements

• Experience with HDL languages (VHDL or SystemVerilog)
• Experience with toolchains Vivado or Quartus
• Experience in simulations and testbenches, hardware-level debugging
• Strong academic background and passion for electronics
• Security clearance or eligibility to obtain UK security clearance
• Ability to work across the full product lifecycle and in a defence environment

• collaboration
• problem solving
• quick learner
• Vivado
• Quartus
• VHDL

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