Senior Hardware Engineer

Overview

In this role you drive secure hardware design within a collaborative Cambridge team, delivering high-quality, reliable hardware across electronic, RF, and digital domains. You’ll work with product managers, software, and customers to meet security certification needs and shape the hardware roadmap. The position offers growth to take on larger design ownership while contributing to a culture that values inclusion and innovation.

Pay / Benefits

• career growth
• flexible working arrangements
• collaboration culture
• diversity and inclusion initiatives
• unlimited potential to impact security
• global team collaboration

Responsibilities

• work within an Agile product development framework
• build strong relationships with stakeholders
• develop high quality hardware security modules (HSM)
• hands-on development of product subsystems
• conduct hardware design, prototyping and validation
• provide architectural support for the product roadmap
• plan with the Engineering team to align dependencies
• prototype and demonstrate hardware platforms in system demos
• ensure change control, testability and manufacturability of designs
• mentor and guide less experienced team members
• drive continuous improvement and self-development

Key requirements

• ability to analyse complex technical problems and propose practical solutions
• solid understanding of analogue, RF, digital electronics and product design
• experience in high speed digital design on embedded systems
• experience with 32/64 bit processors, high speed interfaces & memory
• FPGA experience for high performance
• microcontroller development with low power techniques
• signal integrity, EMC/Safety/design for regulatory standards
• professional ECAD systems – ideally Altium
• experience in security product design and development
• optional: Embedded C or Rust, U-boot and Linux, VHDL
• Degree in Electronic Engineering (Bachelor) or equivalent underlines minimum
• Masters preferred in Electronic Engineering

• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• problem solving
• high speed digital design
• embedded systems
• 32/64 bit processors

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