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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.

Electronics Engineer

November 20, 2023/in South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £55,000

Location of office: Reading

Location of work: Hybrid Work from Home Available

The Role: Our client, a growing company within the robotics sector are now seeking an Electronics Engineer to join their design and development team. The ideal Electronics Engineer will have solid industry experience, be used to contributing to the full design life cycle and ideally have an interest or experience with robotics design (personal, university or industry projects). Their office is based in Leeds and remote/flexible working options are available.

In this role the successful Electronics Engineer can expect to be working within a small team of likeminded engineers who are also technical enthusiasts. They work to agile development methodologies; you can expect the chance to work on a variety of innovative, brand-new, projects and contribute throughout the full design life cycle.

Skills and Experience Required:

Analogue and digital circuit design
Multilayer PCB design and layout
Schematic capture
Relevant degree qualification

This role will best suit an electronics engineer who has a passion for robotics design, is keen to be very hands on in all stages of the design process and is keen for the chance to build new products and add new skills to their skills set.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Robotics industry experience
Electronics test equipment
Any embedded software or mechanical design skills

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett 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.

Electronic Software Engineer

October 6, 2023/in South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronic Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £55,000

Work Location: Vauxhall + Hybrid Work From Home

The Role: An exciting start up in London are now keen to add an Electronics Software Engineer to their growing team working on cutting edge products aimed to improve the quality of farming whilst protecting our natural resources for future generations.

Skills and Experience Required:

C/C++ programming – Bare metal
16/32/64 bit microcontrollers – ARM, PIC, NXP etc
RS232, RS485, SPI, I2C etc
PCB design and layout
Digital circuit design

The successful Electronic Software Engineer will be joining a small team in a fast-moving environment, so experience with a start-up or rapid prototyping company will be beneficial. On offer is the chance to contribute across embedded software and electronics design whilst working with like-minded individuals in a modern, open plan office environment.

In this role you will be given the chance to work throughout the full design lifecycle, contributing to both embedded software and electronics design. You will be involved in new concept meetings and can expect tasks to include writing new software, designing electronic circuits, documentation and in house testing whilst working closely with the development team members.

This role will best suit a technical enthusiast who is keen to work on both software and hardware design in a small design team with the chance to make a real impact in the design of a range of new, cutting-edge products that will have a positive impact on the environment.

Desirable Skill and Experience:

Bluetooth and other wireless comms
EMC design

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

Software Engineer – C/C++

September 5, 2023/in Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Position: Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £65,000

Office Location: Basildon

Location of work: Hybrid WFH model – 3 days working from home a week

The Role: An exciting opportunity has been created for Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team in the Basildon area. You will be working on a range of key products within the energy and sustainability sector and be given the chance to work on new product designs whilst also updating and maintaining their existing product range.

This will be a varied role where you will work closely with a growing engineering team of like-minded software engineers in a challenging and friendly environment. You core focus will cover a range of software design and development tasks for a range of industry leading products.

You can expect the role to involve coding in C and C++ for Linux environments whilst using a variety of serial protocols (I2C, MODBUS, CANBUS, I2C etc). You will be working on the design of complex and regulated products so any experience writing code for safety critical or regulated industries is desirable whilst any experience at device driver or Linux kernel level development will make your CV standout.

This role can be performed semi remotely, and the client are happy for the successful Software Engineer to work 3 days a week from home. This role will best suit software engineer who is enthusiastic about software development, enjoys variety in their role and the chance to work within a small engineering team throughout the full development life cycle.

Skills and Experience Required:

C/C++ programming
Linux development
Modbus, Canbus, SPI, I2C protocols

Desirable Skill and Experience:

ARM processors
Safety critical standards and regulations
Linux driver or kernel level design

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

Electronic Engineer

July 5, 2023/in South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronics Engineer

Location of Office: Basingstoke

Salary: Up to £60,000

An electronics business who specialise in designing bespoke customer solutions used in subsea technology for a variety of applications are looking to recruit an Electronics Engineer to the team. Due to huge customer demand in some of the following areas of work, Dolphin Monitoring, Sealife Asset Monument and Sea Bed Monitoring, the business is looking to add additional electronics engineers to the multidiscipline team.

The suitable electronics engineer will have some of the below skills

Analogue and Digital design and integration
PCB design and layout
SPI, I2C, UART, RS485
Using lab equipment – Oscilloscopes, DMMs, Signal generators etc
Prototyping and bench testing

This opportunity is ideal for an electronics engineer who wishes to have a real impact on the design and development of a product, you will have opportunity to speak to the customer to understand their requirements from concept through to manufacture.

When KO2 were on site with the client it was explained to us that an engineer was actually installing a product in Brazil he had designed from the embryonic stage and taken through to manufacture and customer deployment. If you want to truly own a project this is for you, engineers are totally autonomous and raise their own PO’s and acquire their own components and parts without the need for sign off.

This role will suit someone who is capable of Analogue and Digital micro processor design, the client uses a pic micro controller, this role is suited to an electronics enthusiast, as well as doing electronics micro design, you will have the chance to work with DSPs and acoustics as well as other technologies as you design bespoke customer solutions.

This is a rare an exciting opportunity to join a small business and be totally involved from cradle to grave and work on products that have a positive impact on the world.

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