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October 2021.
Vacancy: Embedded Electronics Lead Engineer
Embedded Electronics Lead Engineer within our Technical Engineering Team, which
forms part of the Teddington Engineering, Design and Development department, based here
St Austell, Cornwall, U.K. We are looking for someone who enjoys a combination of
hardware and embedded software design with a passion to bring to life our future products in
both existing and new category areas.
At Teddington we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid
to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic, but most of all
we’re hugely passionate about what we do. We are looking for individual whom wishes to
embrace this philosophy once engaged in the design and development of leading products
for the global market. By working and engaging with our Engineering and Development
department, such an individual will work alongside other leading technical specialists and
highly motivated creative people, to create products which fulfil our ambition of being truly
different and better than our competitors.
Teddington Electronics is a company specialising in control systems with a diverse range of
customers including the defence sector. Through unique strategic partnerships with global
leading businesses, we gain foresight of up-and-coming technologies. The Technical
Research team aims to exploit this knowledge to design state-of-the-art products, allowing
us to differentiate ourselves from the competition. The successful applicant will be part of the
team designing the next generation of electronic systems for our products in control
systems.
About The Role
The embedded electronics role will involve:
- Creating embedded software designs on microcontroller systems.
- Ensuring designs comply with relevant standards.
- Solving any embedded software issues received from current clientele
- Building demonstration rigs to convey ideas to others.
- Producing schematic, PCB layouts with BOM’s for manufacturing.
- Working on multiple, concurrent projects, supported by several team members all reporting to the Project Manager for the team.
- Collaborating with different product teams to gain an in-depth product understanding,
A Successful Applicant Will Be Expected To
Lead the team to deliver key project deliverables as agreed by the team in the planning phase.
- Highly focused on delivering project deliverables according to pre-agreed deadlines and cost.
- Developing the concept, proving key technologies, and demonstrating the system feasibility.
- Produce clear, well written documentation supporting the project development phase.
- Demonstrate the final product is robust, cost effective and fit for purpose for a high-volume manufacture environment, through detailed laboratory testing, simulation, and analysis.
- Willing to travel within the UK and Overseas when required to meet customers and suppliers.
About You
Education and experience:
BEng / BTech degree (or equivalent) in Embedded Electronic Engineering, or other relevant discipline, or a demonstrable level of industrial experience in a relevant industry.
Core Software Design
- Experience of C/C++/PIC programming for embedded systems.
- Use of Matlab or Python for data acquisition and analysis.
- Digital signal processing experience.
Digital Hardware Design
You should ideally have experience in the following areas:
- High knowledge of microcontrollers and microprocessor technologies, preferably including ARM Cortex M series.
- Knowledge of a wide range of serial interfaces (e.g., I2C, SPI, UART, USB, I2S).
- Experience with FPGAs is desirable.
- Analogue and digital hardware design:
Design Techniques
- Circuit simulation and design tolerance analysis.
- Robust design including FMEA techniques.
- Good quality engineering process understanding and appreciation.
- PCB layout - size/cost minimisation while achieving layouts for inherently good compliance and thermal design.
Essential Behavioural Skills
- Good analytical ability and attention to detail.
- Able to use initiative to drive project tasks forward and take responsibility for delivering assigned tasks on a project.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks.
- Effective communicator; appropriate, concise, and accurate information in written and verbal format to engineers.
- Adaptable and able to generate imaginative and innovative ideas, in line with core Teddington Systems values.
- Excellent team working skills.
Essential Practical Skills
- Ability to design, build, test, and modify firmware accurately, safely and with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Free on-site parking
At Teddington Systems, it's about more than our machines. We recognise that our success comes from our inventive people. We believe in including everybody and supporting you on your journey with us.
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