RESPONSIBILITIES

The role shall include the following responsibilities:

• Lead a team of multidisciplinary engineers and technicians on hardware development.
• Liaise with the management/Programme team on project deliverables.
• Develop ASIL and ISO 26262 good practices.
• Development of electronics hardware for automotive and motorsport products
• Requirements capture and evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product / program requirements
• Circuit design, analysis and documentation
• Develop design verification and validation testing procedures
• Appropriate documentation of the design to allow long term support of the product.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & CHARACTER

Essential

• Degree qualified with a bias towards electrical and electronic engineering. However, applicants without a degree who can nevertheless demonstrate suitable experience will also be considered.
• Analogue or Digital electronics design experience, including concept and detailed design work
• Good quality engineering process understanding and appreciation
• Able to clearly formulate and communicate complex design concepts.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment
• Solid oral and written communication skills.
• The ability to work flexibly – both as an individual and as a member of a team.
• Good IT skills.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & CHARACTER

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of programmable hardware design and verification of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based designs using a Hardware Description Language (HDL), specifically VHDL.
• Hybrid and electric vehicle experience for automotive.
• Analogue and Digital Electronics Experience:
  • Microprocessors and high speed digital design.
  • Serial interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART
  • Automotive interfaces: CAN, LIN, FLEXRAY
  • Amplifiers, Filters
  • Sensor signal conditioning.
  • Micro-controller interfacing.
  • Ethernet interfacing.
• RF, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfacing

Power Electronics:

• Knowledge of Triac/SCRs, IGBTs & FET
• Power supply design
• DC Motor control
• Actuator drives.
• Design Techniques:
  • Circuit simulation & design tolerance analysis
  • Circuit electrical and thermal rating analysis
  • Design for high volume manufacture
• Design for test, including JTAG, HALT, HAST
• Robust design including FMEA techniques.

Previous automotive experience

• FPGA development and/or VHDL
• Experience of PADS/ORCAD/LTSpice environment