Senior Hardware Engineer in Cambridge

Ubisense is a company at the forefront of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet-of-Things. We build products that transform physical space into "smart space", enabling software to see, understand and participate in the real world of people and business activities. This unique ability to connect the physical to the digital has been our driving force for more than 18 years and has enabled Fortune 500 manufacturers like Daimler-Benz, Lockheed Martin and John Deere to revolutionise the way they build our cars, the most advanced aircraft and the machinery that grows our food.

About the role

Our Engineering team, based in Cambridge, is responsible for designing, developing and sustaining our Real-Time Location System (RTLS) products. As a senior RTLS hardware engineer you will be a part of this team, helping to define, create and maintain innovative products to support our customers’ mission-critical operations.

What you will do

• Design, development and debugging of RTLS hardware products.
• Take responsibility for designs throughout their lifecycle, from definition, architecture and design, through release and introduction into manufacturing, and afterwards when supporting our customers.
• Become an expert in the Ubisense RTLS platform covering all levels of the hardware stack (RF, analogue, digital, firmware and embedded software).

Main duties and responsibilities

• Implement RTLS hardware product releases to support the growing number of installations of our products in automotive and aerospace manufacturing applications.
• Work through the full hardware and firmware development lifecycle.
• Design of digital, analogue and RF hardware for Ubisense products.
• Development of firmware for Ubisense hardware products.
• Prototyping of test circuits.
• Analysis of circuits and systems to verify performance.
• Compliance testing of low-power wireless products.
• Support for release management of products.
• Support for transfer to manufacturing.
• Support for and improvement to products throughout their lifecycle.

As a senior member of the engineering team, you will be expected to deliver your own designs, contribute to the technical direction and engineering quality of the wider team, take ownership of complex engineering problems, participate in and lead design reviews, support and mentor colleagues, and help us continuously improve our hardware development practices.

Qualifications

• A 1st or 2.1 degree in electronic engineering or similar.

Essential skills

• Demonstrable project management skills over the full product lifecycle.
• Ability to translate product and system requirements into detailed engineering requirements and hardware architectures.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs involving performance, cost, manufacturability, reliability, power consumption and schedule.
• Experience of design and implementation of digital and analogue hardware, including schematic capture, component selection and PCB design, PCB bring-up, debugging and design verification.
• Embedded systems and combined hardware/firmware systems experience.
• C/C++/assembler programming experience in embedded environments.
• Python scripting experience.
• Familiarity with electronics test and measurement equipment.
• Understanding of design for EMC and compliance testing.
• Familiarity with build systems, revision control and bug management systems.
• Experience developing wireless or RF-enabled embedded products, including RF design considerations, antenna integration and practical RF measurement/debugging.
• Experience documenting technical rationale, design decisions and verification results.
• Deep experience in one or more of wireless, microwave RF, sensors and distributed software systems.
• Good understanding of network protocols including TCP, UDP and HTTP.
• Development of test systems.
• Familiarity with Linux.
• Familiarity with Altium Designer PCB tools.
• Experience in pairing engineering judgement with AI-assisted engineering tools for development, analysis, documentation and problem-solving.

Experience

• Typically three or more years’ relevant professional experience, with a proven track record of delivering substantial electronics design work.
• Exceptional candidates with less experience will be considered where they can demonstrate strong practical achievements and rapid development.

Skills useful in performing the job

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to track down and fix complex hardware and systems problems.
• Understanding of commercial factors which drive design decisions.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• IT skills (familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Takes ownership and follows technical issues through to resolution.
• Methodical and rigorous while being pragmatic about commercial constraints.
• Naturally curious and motivated to understand complex systems in depth.
• Collaborative and able to work effectively within a small, experienced team.
• Comfortable taking responsibility and making well-reasoned decisions.
• Willing to share knowledge, review others' work and learn from colleagues.
• Able to balance new product development with the less-glamorous realities of sustaining deployed products.

Ubisense is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone and make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.