Control Electronics Engineer
Permanent
Southampton, Hampshire
£30,000 - £35,000
Our client is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers for use in laser cutting, welding and marking applications in a wide range of industries. They are seeking a Control Electronics Engineer to join their electronics engineering team, to help support the design and development of the safety and control electronics solutions. This is a broad role responsible for the whole electronics board design as well as all the software.
This would suit an Engineer with a couple of years industry experience with a mix of hardware and software electronics experience.
You will be part of a small team working on various industry products including medical. The role is carrying out upfront compliance work / design, design for safety, systems development, EMC and DFM. Therefore, a real hands on broad role.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
• Design and development of control electronics for safety systems (EN13849 / EN60204)
• Design and development of medical electronics to IEC60601
• To include detailed firmware, software and control electronics design, simulation, testing, troubleshooting and manufacturing documentation for the following:
• STM32 Microcontrollers
• ALTERA FPGAs (Cyclone series) and CPDLs (Max series)
• Development Environment Quartus II
• Development Language VHDL
• C and C++ for embedded design
• Realtime Operating Systems (RTOS) – Analog Devices Visual Display Kernel
• Verilog
Required Experience:
Essential:
2 years as a design and development engineer within some of the following disciplines:
• Safety electronics design and specification
• Control electronics design and specification
• ALTERA FPGAs and Embedded NIOS II cores
• C & C++ for embedded design
• Verilog
• Embedded STM32 micro-controllers
Preferable:
Familiarity with:
• Medical electronics design and specification
• Power electronics design and implementation
• Complex high speed control systems (MHz)
• Laser based products
• Interaction with industrial power electronics
• Schematic capture using CADSTAR
• Analogue, Digital and EMC design
• Communications protocols RS232/485, CANBUS, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, PROFINET, ETHERCAT
• UK driving license
Qualifications:
• Strong Degree or Masters in Electronic Engineering
Personal Profile:
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and adaptable to changes in priorities
• Hands-on, creative approach to problem solving with the ability to translate engineering requests into cost effective and robust industrial solutions
• Strong customer focus
To apply please send an MS Word formatted version of your CV across for our review and consideration.