C015 - Senior Hardware Consultant

Synopsis

Red Embedded are looking to recruit an Senior Hardware Consultant.

Red Embedded was founded in 2003 and has grown to over 50 staff who work across a number of areas including an Engineering Consultancy, Embedded Product Design and Tele-Medical Services. The Company is privately owned and is profitable.

We seek technical excellence to work with a world-class team and with clients including the worlds leading operators, Silicon vendors and OEMs primarily from the Digital TV sector. You will be able to demonstrate that you have relevant experience and have acquired knowledge and skills in most of the key sector technologies. You will be working with a growing company with an established reputation.

The successful candidate will :

  • Develop and design embedded hardware applications for diverse applications.
  • Audit test strategies and test results.
  • Validate hardware platforms on behalf of our customers.
  • Liaise with customers and suppliers on technical issues.
  • Create documentation that can be read by technical and non technical readers.
Personal Qualities

We seek candidates who :

  • Are self sufficient, confident and capable of quickly establishing a rapport with new people.
  • Have a positive, "Can Do", attitude and approach is essential. You will be exposed to a diverse field of applications, clients and technology. You will have the confidence to undertake tasks that are outside of your immediate experience enabling you grow your skill set.
  • Have the ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
  • Are goal driven showing tenacity and taking responsibility to complete tasks to the highest standards to meet business requirements.
  • You will be a lateral thinker and have creative and imaginative elements in your personality.
  • You will be a problem solver, enjoying decomposing issues and problems and driving to resolution in a logical and efficient way.
Skills

The Following Skills are desirable

  • High speed digital circuit design including memory mapping of peripherals devices, knowledge of impedance matched tracking, bus termination topologies, setup hold criteria, clock circuits, skew, & slew rate criteria and other timing criteria.
  • Strong hardware debug ability using high speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and other standard test equipment. A good understanding of measurement and calibration issues.
  • Knowledge of best practice for designing for EMC, safety, CE, ESD, thermal, shock, vibration, microphony and other standards. In conjunction with best practice: design for manufacturer, design for test and design for cost.
  • Familiarity with serial bus architectures including Ethernet, I2C, SPI, I2S, R232, RS485, RS422, DVI, SATA ,HDMI and USB2.
  • Understanding of PSU design including switching regulators, LDOs and buck/boost topologies.
  • Good communication and documentation skills comfortable liaising with suppliers, customers and colleagues.
  • Appreciation of analogue circuit design including op-amps, passive filters, threshold detectors, clamping circuits, regulator circuits, etc.
  • Understanding of RF design techniques and familiarity with associated test equipment such as SFU, and spectrum / network analysers.
Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience

  • You will have demonstrable experience over 5-10 years in hardware development working in embedded electronics and using System on Chip devices, micro-controllers or comparable CPUs.
  • You will have experience with designing high volume CE / consumer premises equipment
  • Experience of working with product targeted at Digital Video applications Ideally using broadcast television standards such as DVB.
  • You will be able to show a progression of responsibility within your career to date and will be able to describe how you have built your skill set to meet new challenges.
  • You will be able to show that you have held a position where you have had direct customer facing responsibility.
  • You will have experience of working in a structured design process and will demonstrate that you have both worked to and written formal Acceptance Test Plans (ATP)
  • You will have experience of delivering hardware designs from conception through to manufacture ideally referencing several successful projects in which you took a lead role.

To apply for this role, read the details above carefully and mail us with your detailed CV in pdf or doc format. Apply