Senior Electronics Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

Location: Manor Royal Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Crawley - Hybrid

Why Join Us

• Senior opportunity within our world class Electronics Team
• Exciting role with an industry leader undergoing significant growth
• Work alongside some of the best Engineers in the industry
• An industry leading salary
• Outstanding benefits package

The Role

As a Senior Electronics Engineer you will be expected to design state-of-the-art electronic systems that deliver world-class performance. You will be working and developing alongside a multi-disciplinary team of 35 Electronics Engineers, who are some of the most experienced Engineers in the industry.

Your role will span the entire product lifecycle from design requirements capture and analysis through to defining the system architecture and designing, building, testing and verifying that the solution meets the customer's requirements.

The Senior Electronics role requires working within the team to optimise the design through trade-offs, studies, analyses, modelling and simulation to produce a best-in-class competitive product. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design of circuit assemblies and systems
• Contributing to development of electronic architectures to meet design requirements
• Component and subsystem evaluation
• Creating electronic schematics and working with PCB layout Engineers
• Testing, validation and debug of circuit assemblies
• Carry out development and integration testing of electronic assemblies
• Contribute to electronics specifications, development and verification plans
• Ensuring compliance to regulatory standards
• Support product fault finding and investigation activities

What We Are Looking For:

• A relevant Engineering, Scientific or Numerate degree
• Demonstrate a good understanding of electronic circuit design
• Solid, relevant, experience in at least one of the following areas:
• Power Electronics
• Digital Electronics
• Analogue Electronics
• Electronics Architecture
• High Frequency Electronics
• Experience with electronics design and simulation tools
• Understanding of requirements for DFT and DFM
• Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills
• Communicate effectively within a diverse, professional environment
• Self-motivated and able to take the initiative
• Outstanding team working skills

Nice to have:

• Experience in design of equipment for safety critical environments
• Membership with a relevant professional Institution, eg IET. IEEE

Transferrable skills may be considered where an application does not meet all the required criteria.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency.