At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop high-quality electronic products from concept to production.
- Company: Join Timebeat, a cutting-edge tech company revolutionising time synchronisation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hands-on experience, and the chance to work on impactful projects.
- Other info: Be part of a small, dynamic team where your work has a visible impact.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in defence, finance, and telecom with your hardware designs.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in PCB design, strong skills in Altium, and a passion for problem-solving.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Timebeat builds the infrastructure of time.
We design nanosecond-accurate synchronisation systems, hardware and software — that keep defence, finance, broadcast and 5G networks running on a shared, provable clock.
When a trading venue needs to prove the order of events to the microsecond, when a 5G network needs its radios phase-aligned, or when a defence platform needs to hold time through GNSS denial, our kit is what does it.
We're an engineering-led company with offices in London, Dallas and Ho Chi Minh City.
Our product line runs from OEM timing modules and PCIe timecards to fully resilient GNSS grandmasters — things like the Open Time Appliance Mini (a palm-sized grandmaster with battery holdover and a double-oven oscillator good to 1.5 µs over 24 hours without GNSS) and the White Rabbit Mezzanine (a sub-nanosecond OEM module hitting ~25 ps RMS jitter).
This is genuinely hard, high-precision electronics — mixed-signal design where picoseconds and clean power actually matter — and the products ship to demanding customers who notice the difference.
The role
We're looking for a hands‑on Hardware Engineer to help develop high‑quality electronic products from concept through to production.
You'll own real designs end‑to‑end — schematic through prototype bring‑up, debug, and into manufacture — and see your work ship in products where timing performance is the whole point.
This is a great fit for someone who enjoys practical, real‑world hardware development and wants broad ownership rather than a narrow slice of a big process.
- What you’ll be doing
- Schematic capture and board‑level design for new and existing products
- Mixed‑signal, digital and power circuitry — where low noise and clean clocking are first‑class concerns
- Prototype bring‑up, testing and lab debugging
- Component selection and BOM creation
- Design for manufacture and production support
- Working closely with firmware, mechanical and product teams to get designs shipped
- What we’re looking for
- ~3+ years' experience in PCB or electronic hardware design
- Strong schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium Designer (or similar)
- Hands‑on board bring‑up, lab debug and test
- Experience designing digital and mixed‑signal boards for commercial products
- Solid grasp of interfaces — SPI, I²C, UART, USB, Ethernet or CAN
- Good grounding in power design, EMC basics, grounding, decoupling and manufacturability
- A practical, problem‑solving mindset — you enjoy getting hardware working
- Nice to have
- Processor‑based or higher‑speed digital design
- Exposure to FPGA‑connected hardware
- Experience with precision timing, clocking, oscillators or low‑jitter design
- Taking products through verification and into production
- EMC / compliance testing
- Work on genuinely hard problems — precision timing is a niche where the engineering actually matters, not incremental tweaks
- Real ownership — take designs from concept to shipped hardware, not a fragment of someone else’s board
- Small, engineering‑led team — your work has visible impact and you’re close to the product and the customers
- See it ship — our hardware goes into defence, finance, broadcast and telecom networks worldwide
We're looking for someone thoughtful, hands‑on, and who enjoys building reliable hardware in a fast‑moving environment.
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Hardware Engineer employer: Timebeat
Timebeat is an excellent employer for those seeking to make a tangible impact in the electronics industry. With a collaborative work culture in the heart of London, employees benefit from hands-on experience and opportunities for professional growth, all while contributing to innovative projects that shape the future of technology. The company values creativity and problem-solving, ensuring that every team member feels valued and empowered in their role.
