Electronic Design Engineer

Description:

Senior Electronics Engineer - Permanent - Hampshire (hybrid/on-site)

A Hampshire-based aerospace business is looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer to lead hands-on design and development of avionics electronics for an unmanned aircraft platform. You'll own designs from first principles through prototype build, qualification, and support into production - working closely with systems, software, mechanical and manufacturing teams.

What you'll be doing

Design & develop avionics electronics (analog, digital and power) for aerospace hardware
Take designs from concept to product: robust, scalable, mass-producible and cost-optimised
Support qualification / certification activities to standards such as DO-160 / DO-254 and associated test regimes
Work with compliance/regulatory needs (including SORA) and environmental qualification (e.g. IP68 style requirements)
Support integration, field trials and flight test activities (UAVs and subsystem prototypes)
Partner with manufacturing on production support, troubleshooting and continuous improvement
Contribute to R&D workstreams advancing platform capability

What they're looking for

Degree: 2:1 or above in a STEM discipline
Strong practical experience across electronics design, prototyping, and productisation
Experience in some/all of:
SPICE modelling / simulation
Component selection + schematic capture
Multi-layer PCB design for high-reliability applications
EMC/EMI-aware design techniques
Altium Designer (preferred, not essential)
Useful / nice-to-have:
Embedded C/C++ (ideally STM32 or similar)
Python (or scripting) for tooling, test, automation
Hands-on skills: soldering, cable assembly, prototype bring-up
UAV / flight-test exposure

Personal attributes

Strong problem-solving, comfortable delivering under pressure
Clear communicator with good documentation and stakeholder management
Proactive, organised, happy to lead multidisciplinary activity
Interest in aviation/autonomy and advanced aerospace tech