Lead Power Electronics Engineer

Lead Power Electronics Engineer
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Onsite – 5 days per week
Salary up to £65,000 + Bonus up to 7.5%

KO2’s client, a well-established and financially stable engineering organisation, is looking to recruit a Lead Power Electronics Engineer to join their engineering team in Eastbourne. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced electronics engineer to take a technical leadership role in the design and development of advanced electronic systems.

Due to the hands-on nature of the hardware development and testing, this role is fully onsite in Eastbourne and offers the chance to work closely with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, product management, and operations.

The Role

As a Lead Power Electronics Engineer, you will play a key role in driving the design, development, and delivery of innovative electronic solutions across multiple product lines. Acting as a senior technical authority within the team, you will guide engineering decisions, ensure best practices in electronics design, and support the successful transition of products from concept through to production.

You will work closely with engineers across multiple disciplines, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the delivery of high-performance, reliable electronic systems that meet both business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of advanced electronic systems, ensuring high standards of performance, reliability, and manufacturability
• Maintain awareness of product roadmaps and technology developments, identifying opportunities for innovation and future product improvements
• Integrate advanced electronic techniques and design approaches to enhance product capability and competitiveness
• Ensure a holistic approach to product development, balancing design optimisation with manufacturability, quality, and reliability
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering team members, promoting best practices and guiding projects to successful completion
• Lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, using structured problem-solving and root cause analysis techniques
• Collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to define and deliver new product capabilities within project timelines
• Work closely with external suppliers and technical specialists to incorporate new technologies and strengthen the team’s knowledge base
• Ensure designs support effective component and system-level testing and meet safety and compliance requirements

Skills & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline
• Strong experience in electronic circuit design, including both analogue and digital systems
• Significant experience working in global, multi-disciplinary engineering environments
• Expertise in analogue electronics design, including areas such as low-noise amplifiers and RF amplifier design
• Strong understanding of high-speed digital design principles
• Experience designing high voltage electronic circuits and instrumentation
• Experience working with microcontroller-based systems (e.g., ARM, DSP architectures)
• Knowledge of high-speed communication interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet, RS485, RS232, CANopen, and fieldbus technologies
• Experience using schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium or OrCAD
• Experience working within regulated or compliance-driven industries or high-reliability environments (e.g., aerospace, medical, industrial systems)
• Understanding of product safety and electromagnetic compatibility standards such as EN 61010
• Strong understanding of product development processes and the ability to recommend improvements
• Experience working with global engineering teams and cross-disciplinary design groups

Desirable Experience

• Membership of a professional body such as the IET, or working toward Chartered Engineer status
• Experience using engineering or product lifecycle tools such as SAP or Silicon Expert
• Experience working within Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall project management frameworks
• Experience working closely with suppliers and external technology partners

Why Join KO2’s Client?

• Salary up to £65,000 plus bonus up to 7.5%
• Work within a stable and globally established engineering organisation
• Opportunity to take a technical leadership role in complex electronics development
• Work alongside highly skilled multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Opportunity to contribute to innovative, high-performance electronic systems
• Strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement