Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer - Tech Research

Description

Accountabilities

• The senior embedded electronics role will involve: 

• Working with different product teams to gain an in depth product understanding, while using knowledge of the latest technologies to create innovative electronics systems and solutions. 
• Researching various sensing, user interface and microcontroller technologies. 
• Reviewing relevant papers, patents and meeting with companies to keep informed of emerging technologies. 
• Producing detailed hardware designs (both analogue and digital hardware). 
• Producing software to exercise hardware. 
• Building demonstration rigs to convey ideas to others. 
• Undertaking the thermal management design of electronic systems where applicable. 
• Ensuring designs can comply with relevant EMC/EMI standards and modifying designs when needed to ensure this is the case. 
• Developing simulations and algorithms for data processing, modelling and analysis. 

• A key focus for any successful applicant will be to research into new technology and look at ways of incorporating this into future products. A successful applicant will be expected to: 
• Develop the concept, proving key technologies and demonstrating the system feasibility. 
• Produce clear, well written documentation prior to handover to the development teams. 
• Demonstrate designs are robust, cost effective and fit for purpose for a high volume manufacture environment, through detailed laboratory testing, simulation and analysis.

Skills

• Education and experience: 

• BEng/MEng degree in Electronic Engineering, or other relevant discipline, or a demonstrable level of industrial experience in a relevant industry. 
• Technical knowledge: Applicants should ideally have experience in the following areas: 

• Digital hardware design: 

• Excellent general knowledge of microcontrollers, preferably including ARM Cortex M series. 
• Knowledge of a wide range of serial interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, UART, USB, I2S). 
• Knowledge of memory devices is desirable e.g. NAND, NOR, SRAM, DDR etc. 
• Experience of application processors. 
• Experience of FPGA design. • Analogue hardware design: 
• Experience of analogue amplification and signal conditioning circuitry. 
• Design of Op-Amp stages such as differential amplifiers, integrators etc. 

• • Software: 
• Experience of C/C++ programming for embedded systems. 
• Use of Matlab or Python for data acquisition, analysis and automation of rigs. 
• Digital signal processing experience. 

• • Design Tools: 
• Schematic capture using Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics or other main stream tools. 
• Use of SPICE based simulation tools such as Simetrix and LTspice. 
• Design calculation tools such as Mathcad and Microsoft Excel. • Design Techniques: o Circuit simulation and design tolerance analysis. o Good quality engineering process understanding and appreciation. 
• Device selection - Interpretation of datasheets and knowledge of design methods to confidently select the lowest cost devices while achieving reliability targets. 

• Lab experience
• Good analytical ability and attention to detail. 
• Ability to communicate appropriate, concise and accurate information in written and verbal format. 
• Ability to adapt or generate imaginative and innovative ideas, in line with core Dyson values. 
• Ability to multi-task and plan effectively when working with a variety of project teams. 
• Excellent team working skills. Additional experience that is desirable: 
• Knowledge of a wide range of sensors that can be used in a variety of projects and not necessarily in existing categories you would expect from Dyson. 
•  An understanding of sensing systems, which can include but is not necessarily limited to gas, particulate, inertial and optical based sensors. 
• Thermal management approaches for surface mount and through hole devices. 
• Robust design including FMEA techniques. 
• PCB layout – size/cost minimisation while achieving layouts for inherently good EMC compliance and thermal design. 
• Design for high volume manufacture. 
• Experience of programming on Linux or Android operating systems running on application level processors. 
• Use of Git for software version control. 
• Atlassian tools, including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket 
• Keil µVision, IAR or similar IDEs

Benefits

27 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays

Pension scheme

Performance related bonus

Life assurance

Sport centre

Free on-site parking

Subsidised café and restaurants

Discounts on Dyson machines