Hardware Engineer

Function

Technical

Employment

Full time

Location

Nottingham

Salary

Competitive salary

Contract

Permanent

Pressac design and manufacture smart building technology for some of the world’s leading companies. Having established a strong reputation for quality products, and with impressive growth plans, our vision is to become one of the world’s leading smart building-sensor providers.

Job purpose

Design and Develop New Product Hardware.

Specific duties

From scratch, design & development of hardware.
Component and Module evaluation & specification.
Circuit design & Schematic Capture
Multilayer PCB layout.
Working closely with the purchasing function in terms of right first time, cost effective component selection and approval.
Work closely with manufacturing operations to ensure seamless transition of design data to finished assembly.
Assist with product VV&T, where required.
Liaison between Design and external contractors.
Report completed and ongoing tasks to line manager on regular basis.
Maintain documentation of activities (TCF) as appropriate.
Provide on time, on target cost hardware designs.
Assist in introduction of new products and technologies.
Provide guidance on improvements to working practices, equipment etc.

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential:

Degree in Electronics and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
Good all-round understanding of low power embedded electronics.
Familiar with low power RF protocols such as Zigbee, LoRa, Enocean.
Proficient in Schematic Capture/PCB layout CAD packages (Altium).

Desirable:

Knowledge of ISM band RF antenna tuning.
RED/CE testing.

Skills and experience

Essential:

A minimum of 5 years’ previous experience in designing wireless embedded electronic devices.
Interfacing using SPI, I2C and UART.
Energy efficient designs (including battery powering).

Desirable: