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.