Senior Electronics Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxford

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement, and verify complex electronic designs spanning high-speed digital, mixed-signal, video, and optical interfacing. 
• Define system and board-level architectures, translating requirements into electronic designs with clear interfaces, budgets, and verification plans. 
• Produce schematics and high-speed PCB layouts using eCAD tools such as Altium, applying sound high-speed layout techniques — controlled impedance, length and skew matching, return-path and power-integrity management. 
• Carry out signal-integrity and, where relevant, power-integrity simulation to guide design decisions before manufacture. 
• Design the electronic interfaces to optical devices and the supporting digital and video interfaces, working closely with the FPGA, RF, and photonics engineers. 
• Lead board bring-up, verification, and characterisation, and resolve issues across the hardware and firmware boundary. 
• Author and maintain design documentation, verification evidence, and test procedures, and contribute to design reviews and engineering standards. 
• Collaborate across photonics, RF, FPGA, and systems engineering, and support the path from prototype to manufacture. 
• Contribute to FPGA design and bring-up where required, working with the FPGA engineers. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree (BEng/MEng) or PhD in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field, with substantial relevant experience at senior level (typically 6+ years). 
• Proven track record architecting, designing, implementing, and verifying complex electronic systems through the full development lifecycle. 
• Schematic capture and high-speed PCB design using eCAD tools such as Altium. 
• Sound knowledge of high-speed PCB layout techniques: controlled impedance, differential routing, length/skew matching, and power integrity. 
• Signal-integrity simulation (for example HyperLynx, Ansys SI, ADS, or similar). 
• Hardware bring-up, verification, and characterisation, with strong analytical and debugging skills. 

• FPGA design in VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog, including high-speed serial interfaces and timing closure.
• Digital video interfacing (for example HDMI) or comparable high-bandwidth digital protocols.
• Electronic interfacing to optical or other sensor/transducer devices.
• A proven track record of delivering electronic designs into production. 

Benefits

• Pension scheme 
• Private medical & dental insurance 
• 28 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Relocation support 
• Visa support available