Electronics Engineer in Pangbourne

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Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the complete electronic design lifecycle, including schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, verification, and transfer to manufacturing.
• Integrate AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies into larger electronic systems, ensuring correct functionality, performance, and compliance.
• Define power architectures, including distribution, protection, grounding, and system interfacing.
• Integrate and validate analogue control and monitoring signals, including voltage and current setpoints, feedback loops, sensing circuits, and signal conditioning.
• Interface with digital control and communication systems for power management, monitoring, and coordination.
• Implement and support communication via industry-standard protocols such as PMBus, CANopen, MODbus, and SCPI.
• Perform system-level analysis, including efficiency, stability, thermal performance, and fault conditions.
• Design schematics and support PCB layout activities, including reviews for signal integrity, EMC, thermal performance, and manufacturability.
• Conduct prototype bring-up, system integration, and debugging, including fault finding down to component level.
• Plan and support Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing, including pre-compliance validation and mitigation of issues.
• Apply thermal design principles to ensure reliable system operation across operating conditions.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation including system specifications, interface definitions, design records, and test procedures.
• Support manufacturing introduction, including design for manufacture (DFM), test, and production issue resolution.
• Support field issue resolution, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams including mechanical, firmware, systems, and manufacturing engineers.
• Quality Management - look for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline.
• Strong background in analogue and digital electronics.
• Experience integrating AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies into system-level applications.
• Proven experience delivering designs across the full product lifecycle from concept through to manufacturing.
• Practical understanding of analogue signal interfacing, including voltage and current control, measurement, scaling, and noise mitigation.
• Experience working with digital control signals (e.g. TTL/logic-level I/O) and communication interfaces.
• Working knowledge of industry communication protocols such as PMBus, CANopen, MODbus, and SCPI for configuration, monitoring, and control.
• Understanding of power conversion principles and common topologies sufficient to support integration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of power distribution, grounding, and protection strategies.
• Experience with EMC principles, testing, and mitigation techniques.
• Understanding of thermal management and system-level heat dissipation.
• Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting skills at component level.
• Proficiency with laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analysers, electronic loads, and spectrum analysers.

Additional Information

• Desirable / Bonus Skills
• Knowledge of digital systems and control techniques (e.g. closed-loop control, PID concepts).
• Experience with embedded systems or firmware-controlled power systems.
• Familiarity with system-level monitoring, diagnostics, and telemetry architectures.
• Experience with product certification and compliance (e.g. CE, UL, IEC standards).

Personal Attributes

• Analytical and systems-oriented approach to engineering challenges.
• Strong attention to detail with a practical, hands-on mindset.
• Able to work independently while contributing effectively within a team.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Planning/Organizing - prioritize and plan work activities; use time efficiently; set goals and objectives; develop realistic action plans.
• Professionalism - approach others in a tactful manner; react well under pressure; treat others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accept responsibility for own actions; follow through on commitments.