- Responsible throughout the product development lifecycle for the specification, design and validation of satellite communication products
- Detailed circuit design including schematic capture, component selection and simulation
- Directing in-house and 3rd party PCB layout design teams
- Deliver prototype and product quality manufacturing workpackages
- Supporting Hardware/Software/System integration, validation and qualification
Required Skills and Experience
- 5+ years experience in a hardware product design role
- Experience in the development of satellite/payload equipments highly desirable.
- Design of complex, high speed circuits implemented as high density, multi-layer (10+) PCBs
- Experience of circuit and PCB design and simulation tools (e.g. Allegro, ADS, SiWave, HFSS, CST)
- Hands on experience in the design of products that contain the following:
- Microcontrollers / Digital Signal processors / FPGA / ASIC
- High speed digital Interfaces (e.g. SerDes, ADC/DACs, etc)
- Power supplies and sensors
- RF design
- In addition, specialist knowledge in the following areas would be advantageous:
- High reliability system design (Space, Military, Automotive, etc)
- DC/DC power supply design
- Verilog/VHDL for developing board/power/clock/etc management components
- Developing ASIC prototyping systems using FPGAs
- Knowledge of environmental, thermal, safety and EMI/EMC standards
- Practical use of scripting languages Tcl/Python/Perl etc