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Senior Electronic Design Engineer

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen with our client a leading defence prime, they are now looking to recruit a Senior Electronic Design Engineer, to work out of their Basildon site.


Job Description:

Do you want to help deliver cutting edge high fidelity thermal imaging and airborne sensor products? Due to the growth of the business area, the client have an opportunity for an Electronic Design Engineer to join their Sensors Team. This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and grow their skills and knowledge within a thriving organisation.

If successful, you will be joining a dedicated multi-disciplined Integrated Project Team (IPT) with a full and stretching workload presenting vast potential for personal growth and professional development.


What you will do

Supporting the precision guidance (PG) programmes, you will support new designs undertaking the following activities.


  • Requirement definition and support to of verification plans
  • Electronic design analysis, circuit simulation and prototyping
  • Electronic schematic capture and PCB layout support
  • Power supply and interface circuit design for digital processors and microcontrollers
  • High-speed digital design – including FPGA, DDR and high speed LVDS video designs
  • Testing and debugging of electronic circuits
  • Development of subsystem engineering solutions and specifications
  • Cabling and connector specifications
  • Integration and Verification of System and Sub-Systems
  • Support to Qualification (including EMC)
  • Production and Delivery support


This opportunity presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and grow their skills and knowledge within a thriving organisation. In this broad electronic engineering role, you will work across a range of projects throughout various stages of the product lifecycle from initial concept development through to early life production support and on to support of existing fielded designs.


What we need from you, and you really must have:


  • SC clearance, or be able to obtain it.
  • Knowledge and experience of all stages of the engineering development lifecycle

Experience of:

  • Digital & Analogue Electronic design knowledge
  • Board level PCB design (ideally using Siemens EDA Xpedition Enterprise)
  • Operating at the product system level
  • Specifying and defining COTS items
  • Working with subcontract suppliers
  • Specifying cable and connector solutions
  • System level integration
  • Ability to make technical decisions within own sphere of responsibility
  • Willingness to work proactively within a fast moving and dynamic environment


It would be nice if you had:

  • Safety, Security and other legislative constraints knowledge
  • Domain experience in Electronics Warfare and Thermal Imaging Systems




Please send a copy of your CV in the first instance.


Synergize Consulting is committed to equality and in our workplace. Synergize Consulting provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual's protected status, including / , , , , ancestry, /, /expression, reassignment, , marriage/civil partnership, /maternity, or belief, , , or any other protected status or characteristic.

Senior Electronic Design Engineer

Basildon, UK
Full time

Published on 04/05/2025

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