Electronics Engineer

Job Description

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

Required Technical Skills and Experience

• 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.