Control Systems Digital Hardware Engineer

Control Systems Digital Hardware Engineer

Lead the design and development / improvement of control centre hardware products, tools and adherence to process. Ensure activities are delivered on time and to budget including work package management. Provide mentorship to other team members. Lead the management of product obsolescence. General obsolescence activities (re-design of multiple boards, including support for firmware migration from obsolete to new devices). Supporting and documenting industrial PC configurations, migration of NPI documentation into new PLM tool. Support of product approval, software integration and project delivery, ensuring that the products, tools and processes remain fit for purpose and enable continuous improvement of them by proactively dealing with obsolescence. Design and development at component / PCB / enclosure level and integration of COTS based hardware products / systems with custom application software, including tools and processes within the business.

Qualifications & Experience:

Degree or equivalent experience in an electronics / electrical engineering discipline. Analogue and digital circuit design including COM carrier board design. PCB design and layout (Altium preferred). Proficient with designing for EMC compliance with sound knowledge of EMC testing. Able to build/specify/deploy PC based solutions, including OS deployment and configuration. Able to produce product V&V test specifications and perform testing.

Experience or understanding of some or all of the following:

Digital hardware and firmware, FPGA and CPLDs, RTOS, housekeeping with Intel processors, carrier boards for SoM and CoM, bus translation e.g., PCIe to local buses, serial and parallel buses, communications protocols, UARTs, USB, SPI, I2C etc. Working to process, working from and creating requirements /test specifications, development plans, design and code reviews, configuration / version control, design analysis – timing diagrams

etc. Memory technologies, spartan and Virtex FPGA families of similar, ability to read schematics / datasheets, BSPs, PCB design/ specification, knowledge of embedded software and operating systems, setting up test environments and configuration of development tools, V&V, characterisation of HW, obsolescence management.