Electronics Design Engineer

the MALDI Group Manager with as accurate as possible, estimates of timescales for designs. Use the Management Information Systems for creating and controlling bills of materials, drawing numbers and bought out parts. Raising Manufacturing Change Notes for design changes and enhancements. Raising permits and concessions as appropriate to allow production to continue. The implementation of approved changes to the design. Liaison with new and old suppliers both on and off site. Liaison with Fitters and Test Engineers. Building prototype assemblies. Meet appropriate company, national and international standards in product design, e.g., ISO61010, ISO13485, 21CFR820 etc. To keep up to date with available third-party components. To keep up to date with design techniques of analogue and digital circuits as well as PLD/FPGA design. To raise Design Change Requests whenever problems or opportunities arise. Evaluation and testing of prototype designs. Investigation of problems found on existing designs

in engineering, test and from field failures. Provide support to the Purchasing team to evaluate new and existing suppliers. Providing technical assistance and advice to colleagues as required. Qualifications BSc/BEng degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience/competences) (E) Experience (Essential/Desirable) Experience in the development of XPS or MALDI Mass Spectrometer instruments, (or similar scientific or medical devices) to FDA (where applicable) and other requirements with demonstrable experience (D) Experience designing both digital and analogue electronics, preferably including FPGA design skills. (E) Experienced with electronic simulations, design verification(E) Experience of full product life cycle from design to volume manufacture(E) Experience of designing for EMC, RoHS and UL approved products is a benefit. (D) Experience with component/product risk assessment and FMEA. (D) Job Related Aptitude and Skills Good all-round electronics design skills and experience;
designing embedded FPGA control and acquisition systems will be considered an advantage. (E) High speed digital design, microcontroller/microprocessors, memory, timing (E) Analogue design, power management, sensor interfaces, ADC/DACs, amplifiers and control. (E) Schematic Capture and PCB Design Altium, Cadstar preferred. (E) Communication interface design from board to board and network connectivity (E) High Voltage design knowledge is an advantage(D) C/C++ firmware, VHDL design and Xilinx Microblaze experience an advantage. xlzlddp (D) Good team player (E) Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or a willingness to work towards professional registration, would be an asset. (D)