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Technical Sales Engineer

Salary: Up to £80,000 DOE + Uncapped Commission
Location of office: North Manchester – Hybrid Work (1 day a week in the office)

The Role: An opportunity to earn a six-figure salary with uncapped commission as a Technical Sales Engineer. Join a growing electronic product consultancy founded by industry experts with a stellar reputation in the UK electronics sector.

About the Company: Our client specialises in providing bespoke electronic design and manufacturing services to a wide range of customers. Customers range from electronic businesses outsourcing tasks to companies without in-house electronic expertise. Recent projects include:

Power supplies
Battery packs
Sensors and sensor interfaces
Keypads
Plastic injection moulding
Cables

No job is too big or small for the business. They pride themselves as being an extension to their customers’ teams, delivering high-quality solutions tailored to their needs.

Your Responsibilities:

Network with existing and potential clients to secure new orders.
Communicate client design requirements effectively to the in-house design team.
Utilize your knowledge of UK manufacturing to identify and address customer needs.
Grow the sales pipeline with projects of any size, which typically leads to further ongoing work with satisfied customers.

Experience Required:

Understanding of UK manufacturing processes.
Ability to articulate design requirements, even if not from an electronics engineering background.
Experience as a Field Application Engineer, Engineer, or Technical Sales professional within electronics.
Strong networking skills to build and maintain relationships with clients.

Why Join:

Innovative Projects: Work on diverse and cutting-edge projects across various industry sectors.
Growth Opportunities: Be part of a growing company with an expanding reputation across the UK.

With many electronic businesses being under-resourced or lacking in-house expertise, there is a significant demand for our clients services, especially as they are UK based. This is an exciting time to join their team and contribute to the future success.

Please contact Chris Oddy to discuss this opportunity further.

Electronics Engineer

July 15, 2024/in Remote Working, South Contract /by Chris Oddy

Location of work- Basingstoke and Remote working

Rate- up to £58 per hour, outside of IR35

Contract length- 12 months

An innovative electronics business specializing in agritech equipment is seeking an electronics engineer to join their R&D team for an initial 12-month contract.

Following significant success at one of the world’s largest agriculture events, they’ve received numerous orders for their latest UK-designed and manufactured electronic product. Currently in small-scale production (version one), they are now focused on developing version two with new features and preparing for large-volume manufacturing.

Your Role:

Develop new features for version two of their product.
Optimize the design for large-scale manufacturing.

Required Skills:

Concept to Production: Experience in full electronic product lifecycle development.
Analogue and Digital circuit
EMC Design
SMPSU knowledge
PCB Schematic Design
Communication and Teamwork

It is an exciting time for this SME, as they are gaining global recognition for their impactful agritech innovations.

Contact Chris Oddy at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to learn more about this opportunity.

Electronics Engineer

July 13, 2024/in Remote Working, South Contract /by Chris Oddy

Location of work: Hybrid

Rate: up to £60 per hour, outside IR35

Contract length: 6 months

The role:

An award-winning Renewable Energy electronics business require an Electronics Engineer for an initial 6-month contract.

You will be working on a motor drive board which is used to control the motors on a wind turbine and solar tracking system to optimize energy capture.

The product is currently at prototype stage, but there is design, validation and test task work to be done before the product goes into full manufacture.

To be suitable for this role you should be comfortable doing electronic design and test work, as well as designing products to meet EMC compliance and DFM objectives.

Although a large percentage of the electronic design work has been done, it is expected some design changes will be needed to meet compliance.

Skills required:

Full product lifecycle experience i.e. design to test
Analogue and Digital circuit design
Power Electronics
Design for Manufacture
EMC Compliance
Communication interfaces e.g. I2C, CAN, UART, SPI

Please contact Chris Oddy or Andrew Knight to discuss this role in further detail.

Embedded Software Engineer

July 8, 2024/in Remote Working Permanent /by Chris Oddy

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £60,000

Office Location: Remote Working

The Role: A new position has now been created for an experienced embedded software engineer to join our clients growing design team. You will be working on a mainly remote working basis only needing to visit their office in Plymouth 1 or 2 times a month. You will be joining a small design team and have the chance to make a real impact in new product design.

You will be working on the design and development of their next generation of wireless connected IoT devices. Your main focus will be low level development using C and C++ on a range of processor level platforms (Silicon labs, NXP and Texas instruments) integrating devices with wireless connectivity (Zigbee, BLE, Wifi etc).

Skills and Experience Required:

C/C++ programming
Silicon Labs, NXP or Texas Instrument processors
Zigbee or other wireless protocols
Full software life cycle

This role will best suit an experienced embedded software engineer who is keen for the chance to develop a range of new devices coding in both embedded C and embedded C++. You will be passionate about software engineering, keen to work in a small team and have the chance contribute throughout the full design life cycle.

Desirable Experience:

Matter
Wireless IoT connected devices

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

Senior Mechanical Engineer

June 17, 2024/in Midlands, Remote Working Contract /by Chris Oddy

Rate: Up to £50 per hour, outside IR35

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

Work schedule: 2 days per week onsite

Contract Length: 3 months initially, with a high likelihood of extension

Project Overview: Join an award-winning company specializing in the design and manufacture of healthcare consumer devices. The role requires proficiency in SolidWorks and experience designing products that enclose electronic PCBs and use plastic injection-moulded parts.

Key Requirements:

Proficiency in SolidWorks
Full product lifecycle design from concept to manufacture
Experience designing enclosures for electronics
BEng or MEng degree

Desirable experience:

High volume manufacturing design
Experience in designing consumer products or medical devices

Please contact Chris Oddy to discuss this role in further detail.

C++ Software Engineer

June 10, 2024/in Remote Working Permanent /by Chris Oddy

Position: C++ Linux Software Engineers (hiring Middle, Senior and Team Lead levels)

Location of work: Fully remote working – you should be UK based

Salary: up to £75,000 DOE

The Role

KO2’s client is a leading telecoms business who are looking to grow their UK software engineering team. In this role you will be part of a global engineering team where you can work fully remotely. The client has offices in Manchester and Reading, but you won’t be required to attend these sites.

The business is moving into IoT developments to complement their cellular network coverage. The device you will be writing C++ software for will improve coverage, allow multi device connectivity and will give users control at their fingertips for a variety of applications.

Due to an exciting product roadmap with lots of new feature development, they are looking to hire 3 C++ Linux Software Engineers into the team.

To be suitable for this role, you should be comfortable programming in Modern C++ (C++ 11 onwards) and on Linux using Docker containerisation. The client is a big advocate of using the latest versions of technology, so you will use C++ 23 in this position.

The business offers excellent career opportunities for hands on C++ Software Engineers, but also those who want Team Lead or Management opportunities.

If you wish to work part of a global team, at a stable company, with lots of development opportunity, where you can work fully remotely this will be ideal for you.

Skills required:

Modern C++ (C++ 11 onwards)
Linux
Docker
Test driven development, Continuous Integration

Desirable experience:

Wireless communication device experience
Python

If this sounds like you, apply today with an up to date CV and for more information on this fantastic opportunity please get in touch with Laurence Powell or Chris Oddy from KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions.

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

C++ Software Engineer

April 2, 2024/in Remote Working Permanent /by admin

Position: C++ Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £60,000

Location of work: Fully Remote Working

The Role: A new position has been created for a C++ Software Engineer to join their team working on a fully remote basis, working towards the development of industry leading home automation and IoT connected products. The ideal Software Engineer will be a coding enthusiast who is keen to work with modern C++, developing brand new products within challenging and rewarding environment.

The successful Software Engineer should be degree qualified and have good industry experience working with modern C++ in an embedded or/and Linux environments. You will have worked in a Test-Driven development environment and be familiar with Yocto or Docker, whilst any experience with Embedded Linux or wireless comms (ZigBee, Thread, Wi-Fi, BLE etc) would make your CV stand out.

You can expect the role to involve:

Full lifecycle involvement in the detailed design, coding and validation of embedded C++ software.
Collaborate with other global teams to ensure the timely delivery of new products according to agreed timescales.
Adopt in-house best practice for code integrity and design validation.
Ensure that the integrity of the system and software architecture is maintained throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Skills and Experience Required:

Strong C++ programming
Linux
Yocto or Docker
Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration etc
Degree qualified within an Engineering related topic

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Zigbee, Thread, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth low power comms

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

Technical Project Manager

March 25, 2024/in Remote Working, Yorkshire and the Humber Permanent /by admin

Salary: up to £60,000

Location of office: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Location of work: 3 days a week onsite, 2 from home.

The role:

A successful electronics business in Barnsley, who have a rich history and track record continually designing and manufacturing industry leading electronic devices require a Technical Project Manager to join their R&D team due to the amount of new product development taking place.

The business still operates as an SME but has the financial stability of being part of a larger group. Operating as an SME has meant the business remains very innovative and can quickly develop new products and solutions to meet customers requirements.

To be suitable for this role you should be a Technical Project Manager who has managed hardware product developments from concept through to mass volume manufacture. All R&D and Manufacturing takes place in Barnsley, so you will be able to build close relationships with the R&D and Manufacturing staff.

The ideal candidate will have a background in electronics, either starting their career as Hardware Design Engineer, Firmware Engineer or Mechanical Engineer. You will have either gone into Project Management, or are at a point in your career where you wish to step up from doing hands on development into a Project Management role.

This role offers you opportunity to project manage product developments throughout the lifecycle, where you will be able to make a real difference on the project. Being an SME will mean you will work closely with R&D, Manufacturing, and all Senior Management in the company.

With the business having a very exciting product roadmap, which includes brand new product developments as well as enhancing existing products with new features and technology, you will be joining the business at an exciting time. They are receiving orders from their loyal existing customer base as well as lots of enquires from new customers due to the businesses increasing reputation in the sector.

LabVIEW Software Engineer

February 22, 2024/in Remote Working, Yorkshire and the Humber Permanent /by admin

Position: LabVIEW Software Engineer

Salary: up to £50,000

Office Location: Sheffield

Location of work: Flexible Hybrid Work from Home

The Role: A new position has now been created for a LabVIEW Software Engineer to join our client who are a growing software consultancy who specialise in developing complex software and hardware solutions for a host of clients across a variety of industries.

The successful LabVIEW Engineer can expect to work within a small team development environment, working on a variety of projects throughout the full development lifecycle. You will ideally be strong with LabVIEW as well as another popular software language (C#, C++, Python) and be comfortable working to modern coding practices whilst using Unit testing, TDD or continuous integration methodologies.

In this role you can expect plenty of variety working on different projects and using multiple software languages, tools and technologies. You will consider yourself a strong problem solver and enjoy the challenges that developing complex software solutions brings. You should be able to illustrate commercial experience in a similar role and have successful experience delivering software projects that achieve the approved project plans whilst meeting agreed upon time and budget targets.

Skills Required:

LabVIEW
C++, C# or Python development
Design patterns – their practical application in complex projects
Unit testing or Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Desirable experience:

C# programming
Embedded Systems
PLC or Scada systems