Senior Electronics Engineer

We’re looking for a hands-on Electronics Engineer to join a growing UK defence engineering business developing high-performance electrical systems. This role will join the Power Electronics division within the company.

This isn’t a role where you’ll own one small part of a mature product. You’ll have the opportunity to take designs from early concept and topology selection through schematic, PCB development, hardware bring-up, testing and eventual production, working closely with firmware, controls, mechanical and test engineers.

The initial work is centred around compact, high-performance power conversion and electric drive systems, but we’re open to engineers coming from a broader power electronics background.

Skills & Experience

We’d be interested in speaking with engineers who have strong hands-on power electronics design experience – you don’t need to have worked across every area below.

Essential:

• Strong hands-on power electronics design experience

• Experience designing power converters, inverters, motor drives or similar high-power electronic systems

• Analogue / power electronic circuit design and schematic capture

• Power semiconductor, gate drive and current / voltage sensing experience

• Hands-on hardware bring-up, testing and debugging

• Good understanding of thermal, switching and electrical performance

• Experience taking designs beyond simulation and working with physical hardware

• SC eligible – dual British / NATO nationalities considered

Useful Experience:

• Three-phase inverters or electric motor drives

• PCB layout using Altium Designer or similar

• High-density / high-power-density electronics

• GaN or SiC devices

• EMI / EMC considerations in switching power electronics

• Design for Manufacture and Test (DFM / DFT)

• Battery systems, charging or power distribution

• Motor control / Field-Oriented Control interfaces

• CAN or other embedded communications

• Aerospace, defence, automotive, motorsport, robotics or industrial power electronics

• Taking hardware from prototype through to production

Additional Information

• Permanent, full-time position

• Competitive salary depending on experience

• Reading area, onsite

• Senior hands-on engineering position rather than people management

• Significant ownership of designs from concept through to physical hardware

• Close collaboration with firmware, controls, mechanical and test engineers

• Opportunity to influence both the technology and engineering approach as the team grows