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Power Electronics Engineer

April 11, 2024/in Greater London, Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Salary: up to £100,000

Location of work: Hybrid. You can work remotely when the task work suits.

Location of office: Milton Keynes

The role:
A growing start-up electronics business with very secure financial investment are looking to recruit a Power Electronics specialist to the team.

The business is using cutting edge disruptive technologies to design highly efficient power supplies that use high frequency AC and operate at very high speed. These power supplies can be applied to various applications and will make an offering that is different to anything currently available on the market.

The business is receiving interest from a wide range of customers in different industry sectors where their power supply solutions could be applied. Some of the industries proof of concepts are to be designed for are Agriculture, Emergency Services, Lighting, Mini-Grid and other Commercial applications.

As the work is so cutting edge and disruptive to power distribution you will have the opportunity to work on all conventional power supply topologies but will also be working with resonant topologies.

You should have experience with push-pull, buck and boost, flyback and resonant topologies and have experience designing power supplies to output High Frequency AC using GaN, SiC all in digital power with micro’s and fpga’s and frequencies ranging from 50 kHz up to Megahertz. The use of silicon carbide in product designs illustrate how cutting edge the developments are.

You should be a Power Electronics Engineer who can work through the full lifecycle, be comfortable working in a lab, and can use one of simulation packages mentioned below. You should also have magnetics and full design documentation experience.

Skills and Experience required:

Power Electronics/ SMPS expertise
Simulation programmes e.g. PCM, PSpice, LT Spice, SIMetrix /SIMPLIS
Invertors/ Power Bridges
PFC
Resonant topologies
EMC

Embedded Software Engineer

April 8, 2024/in Greater London Permanent /by admin

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £75,000

Location of office: Edgware, London

Location of work: Hybrid Remote Working

The role: Our client, a well backed, fast growing start-up in the sports tech sector are now looking to add an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to join their team to work on the development of their next generation of products.

Skills and experience required:

C/C++ programming
RTOS or Bare Metal
Microcontrollers – ARM Cortex, STM32, Microchip PIC etc
Memory interfacing (EEPROM, FLASH, SRAM, SD card)

Their engineering team is made up on a multidiscipline team of likeminded people including sports scientists, electronics engineers, mechanical engineers and software developers and they are looking for Embedded Software Engineers who are keen to work as part of a team whilst taking ownership over their own time and workload.

This role will suit embedded engineers who are passionate about technology and keen to develop state of the art hardware and software to allow people to gain more insight in the live sports sector. You will be keen to be part of a team and be motivated by working on a variety of projects with the chance to contribute throughout the full lifecycle.

Desirable skills and experience:

Linux
Experience with RF Transceivers (UWB, ISM, Zigbee, WIFI, etc)
Python
Version Control – SVN, GIT etc

Package includes: Salary of up to £75,000 + pension, 25 days holiday, flexible hours and more

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity apply with an up-to-date CV today or contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

March 27, 2024/in Greater London, Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Salary- up to £120,000 + equity & benefits

Location of work- 2 consecutive days onsite every 2 weeks, the rest of the time remote. Any travel & accommodation expenses will be reimbursed. When in London the team go for dinner, have fun & socialize.

Location of office- Farringdon, London

The company: Our client is an exciting AI startup company that is looking to revolutionize the way software is developed for businesses without a software engineering department.

Up until now many utility, logistic and civil engineering companies use large IT consultancies to develop software tools to support their custom processes. This can be very expensive and time consuming.

Our clients ‘autonomous AI software factory’ allows these non-technical companies to develop the same software tools considerably quicker and cheaper and without the need for an IT consultancy.

The above might sound ambitious, but the founders of the company have a seriously impressive track record. The last AI business they created was acquired by one of the largest globally recognized companies in the world.

Having recently raised $5 million in funding, they now wish to grow the team which will be UK based. At the present the company is 15 people, with the large majority being the engineering team.

This is your chance to join a company at the early stages, where you can expect to part of another huge success story.

The role: The business currently has no infrastructure team. At present one of the Co-Founders and a couple of the Software Engineers have temporally covered things.

Now is the time for an ambitious Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure and really set the infrastructure culture for the company. As the company looks to scale there is opportunity to lead the infrastructure team if you wish.

Infrastructure for this role means pure infrastructure combined with some DevOps.

To be suitable for this role you should have a background in software engineering. Someone who can configure things but has also written some code in Go, Python, Ruby or something similar would be ideal.

Experience working in a start-up company, scale up or a big tech company (ideally a combination) would be advantageous.

Technical skills required: You should have experience using a Modern infrastructure stack. The business is using Azure, Terraform, Flux, Kubernetes, Postgres and Go.

Experience with as many of the technologies above, or that are similar is desired i.e. Azure is desirable, but if you have used AWS or GCP this is fine.

They key is that you have a breadth of experience in cloud infrastructure and after confident getting things done quickly.

System Design Engineer

January 26, 2024/in Greater London, Midlands, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Remote Working, Scotland, South, Yorkshire and the Humber Permanent /by admin

Position: Systems Design Engineer

Salary: Up to £60,000

Location of Work: Fully Remote

An electronics business who are leaders in the design and development of complex mission critical software, are looking for a systems design engineer to work on the “left hand side” of the V life cycle. The business are a multinational, with huge cash reserves, a strong order book and are looking to improve upon what was a very successful 2023 by adding to the Systems Design Team. The business is looking for the right talent, and as a result is more than happy to consider System Engineers who would like ‘fully remote working’.

The embedded software used in the businesses mission critical applications controls complex Bluetooth related applications, and their client portfolio is a who’s who of the worlds bluechip companies. You will be working with a hugely talented team of engineers who take great pride in their work and are all on the same goal of ensuring the company continues to deliver its goals and provides stable and enjoyable employment. The team you will work in is cross functional, and as a result the System Design Engineers role will be pivotal to ensuring that all the separate entities in the team are succeeding.

The System Design Engineer will be working on the left hand side of the V life cycle and as a result be responsible for working closely with customers, who will be some of the biggest companies in the world, whilst working as a product owner in a cross functional team. The System Engineer will need to have the ability to understand the customers technical requirements whilst designing and developing solutions from concept to launch, whilst designing solutions and formalised representations that meet the customer needs.

The knowledge of safety critical standards and functional safety standards will be key very much a nice to have, but one that would be appreciated by the business alongside the use of CAN tools such as CANoe and CANdela studio whilst delivering prototype to external and internal stakeholders.

The business will offer the Systems Design Engineer a salary of £40,000 – £60,000 plus bonus, pension and competitive package and fully remote working.

If you would like to apply for the Systems Design Engineer role, please send your CV to Andrew Knight at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions.

RF Electronics Design Engineer

January 18, 2024/in Greater London Permanent /by admin

Position: RF Electronic Design Engineer

Location: Edgware

Salary: Up to £80,000

The Role: Our client, an exciting, expanding start-up are now looking for an experienced RF Electronics Engineer to join their team in the Edgware area. Their office is easily commutable via the underground network and just a stone’s throw away from the M1 with plenty of onsite parking

Keys Skills and Experience Required:

Implementing RF transceivers
RF front-end design
Antenna integration
Digital and Analog circuit design

The successful RF Electronics Engineer will be joining a growing team and take on a leading role in the RF Design, architecture and test of their next generation of products. You will be involved in the hands-on implementation & validation of the RF front end and antenna integrations, including testing in the lab as well as in the field. You will work closely with other electronics and embedded engineers in the integration of electronic circuits and their controller software.

Joining a start-up environment the successful Electronics Engineer can expect to work in a fast paced, fluid design environment with plenty of opportunity for variety in day to day tasks, with the chance to become a key member of the team and make a real impact in the architecture, design and validation of a new state of the art system.

This role will best suit an experienced Electronics Engineer with solid experience with RF related design who is keen to take on a lead, hands on role in the design of a brand-new generation of electronic devices.

Desirable skills and Experience:

Experience up to 10GHz
Embedded software design and constraints
CE, UKCA, FCC standards

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail and apply today with an up-to-date CV!

Electronics Engineer

January 7, 2024/in Greater London, Remote Working, South Contract /by admin

Electronics Engineer with Test experience

Location of work: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Rate: up to £50 per hour, outside IR35

The role: An SME electronics business requires an Electronics Engineer for an initial 3 month contract to work on an electronic controller and inverter development. The client is wanting to get the product into production and as such there is lots of integration, validation, verification, and certification task work to do. A 3^rd party is building the end of line test jig. You will be responsible for communicating with the 3^rd party and defining what the test jig needs to achieve. To do this you will be responsible for creating the test specification report and explaining what needs to be tested so the 3^rd party can build a suitable test jig. You will be responsible for:

Validation, verification and certification tasks before the product goes into full production.
Defining what needs to be tested.
Working with a 3^rd party company who are building the end of line test jig

Skills required:

Electronics Engineer with full product lifecycle experience
Experience with pre manufacturing task work e.g. verification, validation, certification
Test plan writing
End of line Test Jig experience
EMC

Field Application Engineer

December 5, 2023/in Greater London, Midlands, Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Job Title: Field Application Engineer

Location: Fully Remote Working

Salary: Up to £45,000 + Car, bonus, healthcare and more

The Role: A successful and growing electromechanical business that develops, manufactures and sells electromechanical components (e.g. connectors, switches, assembly products) is now looking for a Field Application Engineer. You will have electronics design knowledge and be comfortable interacting with non-technical customers and sales agents. In this role you will be mainly working remotely and will be expected to travel throughout the southern region of England to various customer locations on a regular basis.

This role will be made up of 2 primary aspects:

You will be visiting electronic customers to understand and support their requirements, you will be responsible for advising which components would be suitable for their product design developments. This will mean visiting and speaking to customers as well and doing presentations from time-to-time.
You will be responsible for training a team of 5 to 6 sales engineers so that they have the technical acumen to have technical conversations with perspective customers, to help better understand their needs and make accurate recommendations.

Skills and Experience Required:

Electronics design skills – educational or industrial experience
Fault-finding and trouble-shooting of PCB design related issues.
Knowledge of the electro-mechanical industry including use of materials, environmental effects and constraints
Strong communication and
Degree qualification in an Engineering related subject

Desirable Skill and Experience:

Experience teaching or mentoring
Knowledge of cable harness assembly practices.
Any technical sales experience – telephone or face to face based.

Due to this role involving regular travel it is essential the successful candidate holds a dull UK drivers license, a company car will provided and expenses will be fully reimbursed.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Oddy at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Embedded Software Engineer

October 25, 2023/in Greater London, Midlands, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Remote Working, Scotland, South, Yorkshire and the Humber Permanent /by admin

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Location of work: Fully Remote working

Salary: Up to 50,000

The Role: Due to continued growth our client is now seeking an experienced Embedded Engineer to join their team working towards the development of their next generation products. Their products improve people’s lives, and you will have the chance to make a real impact in all new development.

They offer a very flexible remote working scheme and are offering the right Embedded Software Engineer the chance to work on a variety of exciting new products. You will be joining small team working in an agile environment, so the ability to work closely with other engineers and experience working throughout the full development lifecycle is required.

Skills and Experience Required:

Embedded software design
C/C++ programming
RTOS experience– FreeRTOS, AzureRTOS, ThreadX etc

Desirable Skills and Experience:

ARM processors (STM32, Cortex-M)
Bare-metal development
Wireless protocols: Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Thread etc

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further details.