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Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £45,000

Location of office: Aylesbury

The Role:

Our growing client are now looking for an Electronics Engineer to join their team as they continue to design and manufacture life changing robotic surgical equipment, the successful Electronics Engineer will be given the opportunity to design both hardware and software for these complex, life saving devices.

The ideal Electronics Engineer will be degree qualified and have 2/4 years industry experience having worked on embedded software development (C/C++) and electronics design (analog and digital circuit design) on a range of products that have successfully gone to market. Experience within the robotics or medical sector will really make your CV standout and knowledge of lower power design or ultrasonic technology is desirable. You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team and be expecting to contribute throughout the full design life cycle; contributing to concept meetings right through to in house testing and documentation.

This role will best suit an electronics enthusiast who is keen to take on a challenging role with plenty of opportunity for career growth and the chance to develop new skills within software and electronics design, whilst working on the development of a range of cutting edge, life saving devices.

Skills and Experience Required

Digital and Analog circuit design
Microcontroller design
Embedded C programming
PCB design and layout
Degree qualification within Electronics Engineering

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Robotic devices
Masters or PHD qualifications
C++ development
Medical devices

Technical Project Manager

January 19, 2022/in Greater London, South Permanent /by admin

Position: Technical Project Manager

Salary: up to £70,000

Location of office: Stratford, London

Location of work: WFH Hybrid working available

The client: Our client, a fast-growing technology start up within the low carbon and sustainability sector are now seeking a Technical Project Manager to join their Engineering team. In the last few years their products have reached over 40 countries and their user figures are growing rapidly. They are a fast paced, new product development environment and gearing up for the release of gen 2 this summer. Their team is made up of a mixture of software, hardware and mechanical engineers working together in their Stratford based offices.

The role: They are seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead research and development projects through the full lifecycle, supporting the Engineering team and liaising with customers when required. The ideal candidate will have a technical background (mechanical or electronics design) and have experience working in a fast paced, small team environment on products that feature software, electronics and mechanical components.

You will ideally have experience within the consumer electronics sector and be comfortable leading, planning and organising multiple projects at one time working in a fast paced, agile environment. You will be involved in projects from initial concept through architecture, design and product roll out, so you will enjoy the challenge that new product development brings and welcome day to day variety in your role.

Skills and Experience Required:

Project management experience
Successful completion of a variety of consumer electronic products
Degree qualified within an Engineering subject
Knowledge of a range of product management software tools
Experience leading projects and small teams through the full design life cycle

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Experience within the low carbon and sustainability sector
Strong design skills – mechanical or electronics preferred

On offer is a salary of up to £70,000, flexible working form home arrangements, unlimited annual leave, and more benefits. Our client are keen to fill this role asap and would welcome an immediate starter so apply today for immediate consideration or for more information on this fantastic opportunity please get in touch with Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight from KO2 embedded recruitment solutions.

Electronic Design Engineer

January 12, 2022/in Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronics Design Engineer

Salary: Up to £50,000

Location of office: Basingstoke

Location of work: WFH Hybrid Model

The Role: As our client continue to grow, they have now created a role for an Electronics Design Engineer to join their Engineering team. The successful Electronics Engineer will be joining a small design team environment reporting directly to the Head of Electronics. You will have at least 3 years industry experience in a similar role and be comfortable taking on individual projects and managing your own workload.

Our client is in the tech for good sector and in this role, you will have the chance to work across the full design lifecycle, including seeing your work being utilised in the real world to improve peoples lives.

You will be joining an engineering team and can expect plenty of variety in your role from circuit design, test and debugging, liaising with customers, circuit verification and contributing to concept meetings. This role will best suit an electronics enthusiast with an eye for detail and creative approach to problem solving.

Skills and Experience Required:

Degree within an Engineering Subject
PCB Design and Layout – Altium preferred
R&D test fixture design including Pi/Arduino based programming
Mixed signal circuit design

Desirable Skills and Experience:

LabView
Wireless communication technologies – BLE, Wifi, Bluetooth etc
EMC standards

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

Electronics Engineer

January 10, 2022/in Remote Working, South /by admin

Position: Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £60,000

Location of office: Southwark, London

Location of work: WFH Hybrid Model

The role: Our client, a London based green energy product design business are now seeking an experienced Electronics Design Engineer to join their growing Engineering team, the successful Electronics Engineer will be joining a small mixed discipline team working towards the design of a new range of green energy products that will be tested and manufactured here in the UK.

In this role you will take the lead on all matters electronics design and will ideally be an all-round electronics engineer with strong experience across new product design working on analogue and digital design, PCB design and layout (Altium desired) and be comfortable working closely with embedded design engineers whilst contributing to the full development life cycle. Our client is a household name in their field, have a range of products in the market and are now embarking on their next generation of products to be sold in the UK and across Europe.

Their office is based in the Southwark area and offer a flexible working environment including working from home options. They are seeking an experienced engineer who enjoys problem solving and has a creative approach to circuit design. You will be a strong communicator and enjoy plenty of variety in your role and be keen to work with the latest technologies.

Skills and experience required:

Analogue and digital circuit design
PCB design and layout – Altium or Circuit Studio desired
Fault finding to component level
Test and debug of prototype assembly
Full design life cycle experience
Degree qualification

Desirable skills and experience:

EMC Regulations
Mains power design
Embedded C programming

For the chance to be considered for this unique opportunity please contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd with an up-to-date CV

Electronics Engineer

January 7, 2022/in Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £45,000

Location of office: High Wycombe

Location of work: WFH Hybrid model

The role: A new position has now been created for an Electronics Engineer to join my SME sized client in the High Wycombe area. This is an exciting time for my client as they embark on brand new product developments in the green energy and sustainability sector. This role has been created due to growth and there is an interesting design project awaiting the successful Electronics Engineer.

The ideal Electronics Engineer will be degree qualified and have 3/4 years industry experience in a hands-on design focussed role. You will be comfortable designing both analogue and digital circuits, have experience designing multilayer PCBs and have some exposure to power design techniques. Any experience with mains grid inverters, battery charging, or battery storage management would really make your CV stand out.

In this role you will be joining a multidisciplinary team and should expect to contribute to the full design life cycle whilst working closely with other design engineers and your main focus will be the design, development, implementation and testing of new electronic devices. This role will best suit an all-round Electronics Engineer who enjoys plenty of variety in their role and the challenge of designing new complex, green energy systems that will improve the future for generations to come.

Skills and experience required:

Analogue and digital circuit design
Multilayer PCB design and layout
Schematic capture
Power design techniques and protocols
Degree qualification within an electronics related subject

Desirable skills and experience:

Embedded C programming
Microcontroller design
Mains grid inverters, battery charging or battery storage management
Master’s degree

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

Research and Development Manager

January 6, 2022/in South Permanent /by admin

Position: R&D Manager

Salary: up to £70,000

Location of office: Oxford

The role: An exciting position has now been created for a R&D Manager to join my client’s growing new product development focussed business in the Oxford area. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a technical management role within a R&D product development business and will have a technical background within mechanical, hardware or embedded design.

This is an exciting time to be joining our client and the successful R&D Manager will be given the opportunity to lead a critical project where you will work on a brand new product development, whilst leading a multidiscipline team, currently 7 people with plans for growth. You will manage the team and project on a daily basis and can expect your role to involve development strategy, project planning, budgeting, technical leadership, liaising with customers and working closely with other department leaders.

Skills and experience required:

Proven ability to successfully manage and lead engineering teams
A technical background within mechanical, hardware or embedded systems development
Experience in a technology leadership role
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Degree qualification within an engineering discipline

Desirable skills and experience:

Experience with the aerospace, sensing or test and measurement sectors
Ability to work closely with customers and other business leaders
Experience or knowledge of optoelectronic technology

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

Embedded Software Engineer, IEC 61851, EV Ready

December 16, 2021/in Greater London, Remote Working, South Contract /by admin

RATE: £50-60 per hour

LOCATION OF WORK: Largely remote working. Only going to client site if essential

LOCATION OF OFFICE: London

CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 months initially

START DATE: asap

IR35 DETERMINATION: Outside of IR35

THE PROJECT:

An electronics business in London, who specialise in smart EV chargers for the automotive sector require an Embedded Software Engineer to join their team urgently. In this role you will be working closely with another Embedded Software Engineer.

Having won a huge order with a major automotive customer, they are required to make sure their embedded software complies to IEC 61851 and EV ready. These are two compliance standards that EV charging manufacturers must now comply to.

To meet these standards some changes are needed to the existing codebase.

Your role will be to work on the existing codebase and make the appropriate changes in order for the software to comply to the two standards.

If you are an Embedded Software Engineer who has IEC 61851 or EV ready experience this would be highly desirable.

Alternatively if you are an Embedded Software Engineer who is used to writing embedded software to safety critical coding standards (e.g. in Aerospace, Automotive, Defence, Medical, Oil+Gas) and would be confident getting up to speed with a new coding standard and implementing it then this role will be ideally suited.

The electric vehicle and ev charging sector is going through an incredibly exciting time, and is making a huge positive difference. Getting EV charging experience, and understanding the regulation standards will be highly desirable for future contract opportunities as this market is only going to grow.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Embedded C/ C++
RTOS/ Bare Metal
Proven experience writing software to safety critical coding standards e.g. MISRA, DO-178B, IEC 61508, 62304
Confident making changes to an existing codebase to ensure it complies to a regulatory standard
Comfortable working on a fast moving project with key delivery deadlines

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

IEC 61851 or EV ready

Embedded C++ Software Engineer

December 14, 2021/in Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Salary: Up to £65,000

Location of work: Fully Remote Role

The Role:

An SME sized medical device business, with a rich history and loyal customer base require an Embedded Software Engineer with C++ programming ability to join their growing software engineering team.

The company’s wearable device products are used by people all over the world, making a huge positive impact to the wellbeing and happiness of its customers. By becoming IoT enabled the performance of the companies’ devices will improve, as it will allow customers to get better and more insightful real-time information.

To be suitable for this role you should have worked on embedded systems and must be confident programming in C++ (ideally C++ 11, 14 or 17). You should also have experience developing on RTOS or Bare Metal.

If you have only programmed in Embedded C on RTOS/ Bare Metal, and C++ on Windows or Linux then this is fine. It’s having an understanding of developing for low power/ memory constrained devices that is important. Of course, if you have experience developing C++ on RTOS / BareMetal this would be highly desirable.

As the products you will be working on are classified as Medical Devices, they must meet Medical Device standards. Previous experience writing software to medical device standards such as IEC 62304 would be advantageous. Otherwise you should demonstrate ability to follow software coding guidelines, ideally for safety critical industries. Example standards could be MISRA, DO178B on other internal company guidelines.

This opportunity gives you the flexibility to work fully remotely, whilst working on super exciting project work, where you will play a key role developing brand new Wearable IoT Medical Devices, that make a huge positive difference to people’s livelihoods.

Skills and experience required:

C++ (ideally C++ 11, 14 or 17)
Embedded Systems
Microcontroller / Microprocessor experience
Confident developing to Software Coding standards, ideally Safety Critical e.g. MISRA
A team player, who enjoys collaborative and positive team environments

Desirable skills and experience:

RTOS or Bare Metal development
ARM Cortex, STM32, Microchip experience
Developed for Low Power/ Resourced Constrained devices
Developed devices using Wireless Communication technology e.g. BLE, Bluetooth, GSM, LTE, WiFi, Zigbee

Embedded Software Engineer/ Architect

December 12, 2021/in Remote Working, South Contract /by admin

Rate: £50-60 per hour

Location of work: Can be performed remotely

Location of client: Basingstoke

Contract length: 6 months initially

IR35 status: Outside of IR35

The Project:

A telecommunications business that specialises in instant communications require an Embedded Software Engineer/ Architect to work on the development of a brand-new broadband push-to-talk solution. The solution you will be developing will connect various IoT devices into the radio network, so that critical events are communicated into the network at real-time.

For example, a push-to-talk channel which is connected to fire alarms, burglar alarms, cameras etc will allow customers to be communicated to in real-time when an event is triggered.

To be suitable for this role you should be an Embedded Engineer who has experience working at the early stages of a software project and is comfortable working on architect/ system level tasks.

Due to the nature of the project, it is important you have experience working on wireless/ telecommunication related software projects.

As the business will be developing customized push to talk solutions for each customer, it is desired that a Software platform is developed which can easily be adapted and modified for each customers solution, rather than developing from scratch each time. Experience developing software in this way is highly desirable.

Skills required:

Wireless/ Telecommunications experience e.g. 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi
Full software lifecycle experience
Experience working on Architect or System level tasks
Embedded C/ C++

Desirable experience:

Linux
Connected IoT devices to wireless networks

Embedded Software Engineer

December 8, 2021/in Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Salary: Up to £50,0000

Office Location: Cambridge

The Role:

An exciting position has now been created for an Embedded Software Engineer to join a fast-growing technology start up in the Cambridge area, as they embark on a new AI deep learning- based project. The successful Embedded Software Engineer will ideally have a strong academic background and enjoy the research elements of projects as well as developing functional embedded software coded in C, C++ and Python.

You will be working within a small team and will also have the opportunity to work with local research associates from the University of Essex on this new project. You should expect the role to involve the following:

Development and testing of software for embedded systems.
Benchmarking deep learning-based models and algorithms on various computing platforms.
Debugging of embedded software to troubleshoot problems.
Generation of reports and presentations regarding embedded software development work.
Embedding technology and upskilling company staff.
Participating in academic and/or industrial conferences and other events, to disseminate and present research outcomes to the wider community.
Publish peer-reviewed articles in High Impact Journals

In this role the successful Embedded Software Engineer will take a lead role in the software development aspects of this project whilst working closely with a small team whilst also liaising with non-technical stakeholders of the business and University. On offer is a competitive salary of up to £50,000 plus a host of benefits including a budget for personal development, travel and any materials or equipment you might require.

Skills and Experience Required:

BSc in Engineering or Computer science related subject
Embedded C/C++ development
Python
Linux
Testing and debugging software

Desirable Experience:

Computer vision or AI experience
MSc or PHD
JIRA
ARM/Nvidia based embedded platforms