Senior Electronics Engineer

20 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will design state-of-the-art electronic systems. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team of 35 Electronics Engineers. Your role will involve the entire product lifecycle, from design requirements capture and analysis to defining system architecture, designing, building, testing, and verifying solutions. The role requires optimizing designs, performing trade-offs, studies, analyses, modeling, and simulation to create a best-in-class product. Responsibilities include designing circuit assemblies and systems, contributing to electronic architecture development, component and subsystem evaluation, creating schematics, working with PCB layout engineers, testing, validation, and debugging circuit assemblies, conducting development and integration testing, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The role also involves supporting product fault finding and investigation activities.
Must have:
  • Relevant Engineering, Scientific, or Numerate degree
  • Good understanding of electronic circuit design
  • Experience in areas like power, digital, or analogue electronics
  • Experience with electronics design and simulation tools
  • Understanding of DFT and DFM requirements
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Self-motivated and able to take initiative
  • Outstanding team working skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in design of equipment for safety critical environments
Perks:
  • Senior opportunity within our world class Electronics Team
  • Exciting role with an industry leader undergoing significant growth
  • Work alongside from some of the best Engineers in the industry
  • An industry leading salary
  • Outstanding benefits package
  • Market leading training, development and experiences
  • Significant bonus
  • Strong pension contribute
  • Private healthcare
  • Relocation support if required

Job Details

Location: Belfast, 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.

Senior Electronics Engineer

Belfast - Hybrid

If you are looking for an Electronics role within a local, innovative and industry-leading organisation? Look no further! We are seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer with experience in delivery of complex electronic products and systems.

Why Join Us

  • Senior opportunity within our world class Electronics Team

  • Exciting role with an industry leader undergoing significant growth

  • Work alongside from some of the best Engineers in the industry

  • An industry leading salary

  • Outstanding benefits package

Who We Are

Thales Integrated Airspace-protection Systems (IAS) UK designs and manufactures a range of cutting-edge technologies ranging from air surveillance and mission planning systems to missiles. The company specialises in lightweight missiles and the integration of weapon systems into various platforms along with the systems to manage and exploit critical mission planning and air surveillance data. Belfast is also home to the Thales’s global Space Electric Propulsion Integration Centre.

The Role

As a Senior Electronics Engineer you will be expected to design of 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

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

Security Clearance Statement

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 - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we can offer

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribute, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

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