Job description

Contract Senior Electronics Engineer

Oxford, UK

Senior Electronic Engineer

Contract: 3-6 month contract

Location: Oxford, based onsite 5 days per week

Salary: up to £450 per day

Starting: ASAP

Position Overview

As a Senior Engineer, perform full-cycle board-level electronics design activities from idea to product launch as well as contributing to higher level architectural decisions.

Main Responsibilities

• Plan own electronics design activities, estimate efforts, and review peer outputs
• Gather requirements for electronics design ("what?")
• Take part in subsystem level DFMEA activities to help identify risks and suitable mitigations
• Write specification for electronics design ("how?")
• Select components and liaise with component suppliers
• Perform architecture and functional design, including contributing to system level decisions
• Do schematic and layout design
• Do board bring-up, validation, characterization
• Liaise with Contract Electronics Manufacturers for initial board builds
• Support production (DFM, DFT, BOM cost optimization)

Essential Experience

• Full-cycle board-level electronics design for products released to market
• Electronics design in any CAD tool, both schematic and layout
• Component selection (both on and off board)
• Understand measurement techniques and equipment
• Able to create clear and concise documentation