Holt Executive are partnered with a leading technology innovator who provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. 
They currently require experienced Hardware Engineer - Defence who will be working on a wide range of component-level design in the development of our products.
This typically includes integrating high-speed data converters, high-end FPGAs, ARM-based System-on-Chip devices and associated power supply circuitry onto mixed signal PCBs.
Responsibilities for the Hardware Engineer - Defence:
- Responsibility for the design and overall quality of complex electronic sub-systems.
- Specification and design of circuits containing functionality including:
- Multi-gigabit High Speed Serial channels (PCIE, 10G Ethernet, USB3 and JESD204B)
- Memory (DDR3, DDR4, Flash)
- Microprocessor (including ARM), FPGA (Xilinx, Intel) and MPSoC (Xilinx)
- Power supply design including filtering / isolation, point of load and power sequencing
- Design analysis using industry standard tools such Siemens HyperLynx (SI / PI) and Spice.
- Collaboration with support functions and wider engineering disciplines e.g.
software, firmware, PCB and mechanical engineering.
- Support of junior engineers through technical leadership and guidance.
 Experience required by the Hardware Engineer - Defence:
- Experience of high-speed digital and analogue hardware design, simulation, implementation and verification.
- Integration and test of PCB assemblies and systems.
- Requirements elicitation and management.
- Experience and knowledge of tools and techniques required to development production ready electronic products such as Design for Test, Design for Assembly and Design for Manufacture.
- Experience of Change Management systems (ARAS PLM, Windchill) to manage component and products lifecycle data through the implementation for Problem Reports, Engineering Change Requests, etc.
 Benefits and perks:
- Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible
- 12pm finish every Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
If your skills and experience match this Hardware Engineer - Defence opportunity, we encourage you to explore this exciting opportunity by applying to this advert.