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Senior Hardware Engineer

Job Posted: 8 days ago

Salary: £ 60,000 - 65,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Norfolk

Expire in: 20 days

Job Description

Senior Hardware Engineer - Power Electronics

An innovative engineering company specialising in advanced electric drive systems for automotive and mobility applications is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer. In this permanent role, you will support the design, development, validation, and production release of power electronics hardware.

Key Responsibilities

Design & Develop: Focus on power electronics hardware including DC-DC converters, traction inverters, battery chargers, and associated control/interface circuitry.

Full Lifecycle Support: Take hardware from concept and schematic design through PCB layout, prototyping, validation, and production transfer. 

Robust Engineering: Apply structured methods (WCA, FMEA, DFM) to ensure designs are robust against environmental factors, tolerances, and EMC effects. 

Collaboration: Work with firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to optimize production yield, assembly robustness, and test strategies.

Key Skills Required

Power Electronics Design: Strong experience in power electronics hardware design within automotive, industrial, motorsport, or electrification sectors.

Topologies & Circuits: Solid understanding of three-phase inverter bridges, bidirectional DC-DC converters, and analogue circuits (sensing, filtering, protection).

Manufacturing Focus: Strong knowledge of PCB fabrication, assembly constraints, component tolerances, and production release processes.

Technical Tools: Experience with simulation tools (e.g., LTspice, MATLAB) and electronic CAD tools for schematic capture (preferably Altium Designer).

Role Details

Location: Hethel, Norfolk 

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) 

Position Type: Permanent (No contractors or unsolicited agencies)

Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

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