L3Harris

Job Title – Hardware Engineer

Job Location – Tewkesbury & Fleet, UK.

Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible.

Job ID: SAS20233108-105472

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

L3Harris in Tewkesbury and Fleet are part of our ICI division, we work closely with UK Government and Security Agencies primarily in the areas of Crypto/Cyber Security and Electronic Warfare including Counter IED capability.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, we have an opportunity for a Hardware Engineering Specialist to work in our Hardware team. You will be joining a team of eight others working on a wide range of component-level design in the development of our products. This typically includes integrating high-speed data converters, high-end FPGAs, ARM-based System-on-Chip devices and associated power supply circuitry onto mixed signal PCBs. We use SPICE and Mentor Graphics signal integrity and schematic tools to capture designs.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible
• 12pm finish every Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional registration with the IET

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of the Hardware Engineer will include the following:

• Responsibility for the design and overall quality of complex electronic sub-systems.
• Specification and design of circuits containing functionality including:

- Multi-gigabit High Speed Serial channels (PCIE, 10G Ethernet, USB3 and JESD204B)
- Memory (DDR3, DDR4, Flash)
- Microprocessor (including ARM), FPGA (Xilinx, Intel) and MPSoC (Xilinx)
- Power supply design including filtering / isolation, point of load and power sequencing
- Clock tree including jitter specification
- JTAG/Boundary Scan

• Design analysis using industry standard tools such Siemens HyperLynx (SI / PI) and Spice.
• Collaboration with support functions and wider engineering disciplines e.g. software, firmware, PCB and mechanical engineering.
• Support of junior engineers through technical leadership and guidance.
• Estimation, planning and execution of work to build business confidence, report progress and deliver projects.
• Good understanding of the electronics component market and current offerings

What you’ll bring

The role of Hardware Engineer requires the following experience and skills:

• Experience of high-speed digital and analogue hardware design, simulation, implementation and verification.
• Integration and test of PCB assemblies and systems.
• Requirements elicitation and management.
• Experience and knowledge of tools and techniques required to development production ready electronic products such as Design for Test, Design for Assembly and Design for Manufacture.
• Experience of Change Management systems (ARAS PLM, Windchill) to manage component and products lifecycle data through the implementation for Problem Reports, Engineering Change Requests, etc.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work, many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

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