Staff Embedded Hardware Engineer

About the Role

At [Employer hidden], we are looking for a passionate Staff Embedded Hardware Engineer, to develop, test & maintain embedded hardware components. Use cases include our next generation wearable medical devices, bespoke testing tools & manufacturing aids. The right candidate would champion engineering best practices & own process improvements.

You have the exciting opportunity to work with a strongly multi-disciplinary team, reaching Embedded Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sensor Development, through to App and Back-End Development.

Responsibilities

• Product PCBA design
• Experimental feature “Proof of Concept” feasibility investigations
• Hardware test set up development – manual & automated
• Own improvements to high performance processes for developing efficient, reliable & maintainable embedded systems
• Capture requirements & pull these through the engineering process from implementation, component test & system level test

Past Experience

5 years experience in a hardware related field

Great to have:

• Experience with wearable devices
• Medical and/or regulated industry experience

Requirements

Hardware

• Low power hardware optimisation
• Small PCBA size optimisation
• Fluent in mechanical integration trade-offs
• Schematic design
• Multi-layer PCB design
• Hardware bring-up
• High precision low noise analogue
• Measurement uncertainty stack-ups
• Digital circuits, MCUs, digital buses (I2C, SPI etc.)
• RF design principles, impedance matching and transmission lines
• BLE Antenna design
• Knowledge of IEC 60601 & translating requirements to electronic design features
• Design for Excellence (Design for X)
• Manufacturability
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Testability

Systems Engineering & Cross Team Qualities

• Translating & allocating requirements to electronics architectures & block diagrams
• Test driven mindset. “The proof is in the pudding (read: test)”
• Methodical risk analysis techniques like FMEA.
• Appreciation of user hazards & product-level risks.
• Fluent in version control approaches & being comfortable with validating for example “the file marked version 1 is indeed the true version 1”
• Being on top of interface control (e.g. interface control documentation to manage interfaces with other components & teams).
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders

Tools

• Altium
• Git & GitHub
• LTSpice & other modelling tools

Processes

• Undertaking Layout Reviews, Inspections, Walkthroughs.
• Experience with version control tools (e.g. Git), workflow tracking (e.g. JIRA)
• Ability to work fluently with other engineering disciplines (Mechanical Engineering, Embedded Software Engineering, Sensor Development etc.)
• Project Management of time & resources, and owning timing plans for work

Preferred

• Knowledge of mains facing circuits, design techniques & general user safety
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python

About the Company

All the health information we need is within us. Just below the skin. [Employer hidden] is redefining the way people interact with their health by developing the most advanced biosensing technology science has to offer, capable of accessing bodily information in a painless, real-time and affordable way.

117 CHARTERHOUSE STREET, LONDON, EC1M 6AA, U.K

[Employer hidden]'s biosensor is currently being investigated as an experimental device. The performance attributes of this sensor have not yet been fully determined and it has not received approval from the UK Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency or the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The availability of this device will depend on obtaining the necessary clearance or approval in the future.