Electronic Design Engineer

Electronic Design Engineer – R&D

Central Birmingham – Easily commutable via train

Up to £50,000 DOE

About the opportunity

KO2 is delighted to be partnering with a respected engineering business in central Birmingham to recruit an Electronic Design Engineer into its R&D team.

Our client designs sensors and digital instrumentation for industrial applications. This is a hands-on role covering the full hardware lifecycle – circuit design, PCB layout, firmware and electrical test – working alongside an experienced core engineering team. You’ll have genuine ownership too, delivering your own features and components within live projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Hardware and circuit design – working with fellow engineers on circuit design and PCB layout refinements that reduce manufacturing variation.
• Firmware development – helping develop, debug and test firmware for the next generation of digital instruments.
• Test and bug resolution – tracking down, fixing and documenting hardware and code issues, supporting the electrical test workflow and validating performance improvements.
• Owning your work – independently delivering smaller features and physical components within active project streams.

What our client is looking for

• A solid grounding in electrical principles, circuit design, PCB layout and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• Design-for-manufacture know-how, including good EMC practice and RoHS and WEEE compliance
• Systems and firmware programming experience, including C and Verilog
• Experienced with schematic capture, PCB design – Altium or KiCad ideally
• The ability to work well both on your own and as part of a collaborative team

Desirable experience

• Designs operating at 1 GHz and above
• Designing to ATEX standard IEC 60079-11 (intrinsic safety)
• Designing to environmental testing standard IEC 60068-2
• PLC programming, particularly Siemens S7
• STM32 and Zynq SoCs

The package

• Salary: Up to £50,000 + Benefits DOE
• Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday, 9:30am–5:30pm, with some flexibility
• Location: On site in central Birmingham, easily walkable from train stations.

Apply today with an up to date CV and a member of the KO2 team will be in touch to discuss and progress your application.