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Senior Hardware Engineer Communications Processors
2015-07-24 12:05:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy has arisen for a Senior Hardware Engineer within the Communication Processors Group within Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage. The Communication Processors group is responsible for the development of Digital Processors for telecommunications applications, working for a variety of customers usually external to Airbus. Whilst some products are bespoke designs, increasingly projects involve a tailoring of generic product solutions to a specific customer. The hardware team is responsible for the schematic design of the PCBs and component selection. The Senior Hardware Engineer is the Lead engineer acting as the focal point of contact for all customer facing technical needs, coordinating all aspects of engineering including the detailed design work. The Senior Hardware Engineer remains a key member of the project team during manufacture and test of the flight equipments, frequently interfacing directly with the customer. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include Coordination of all technical elements of the project, starting from the customer specification. This includes overseeing the work carried out by detailed design engineers within the hardware team, performing component selection, simulations, analysis and schematic capture and working closely with neighbouring teams including ASICFPGA designers, Mechanical designers. It also involves coordinating inputs from specialists in other groups for example Radiation, EMC. Overseeing Manufacturing and Test of the equipments right through to delivery to the customer, working closely with the teams in those areas. Responding promptly to any anomolies or nonconformances that may occur, coordinating the appropriate analyses to give the customer confidence in the product. Generation and coordination of hardware design and test documentation, from equipment specifications, through PDR and CDR documentation including all associated analyses Worst Case Analyses, FMECAs to test reports and any NCRs RFDs RFWs IRBs NRBs. The successful candidate will be able to summarise clearly the technical information in order to present the key points to the project manager and to the customer. Providing regular progress reports to both line and project management, assisting with scheduling and costing of the project work. Inputs to bids for new projects, contributing technical sections and statements of compliance. Contribute to lessons learnt activities, process improvement and risk management. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Educated to degree level in Electronics Electrical RF Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline. Experience of the complete Flight Hardware Design Cycle, from requirements capture, through schematic design, to experience of handson support to Manufacture and Test of Flight Units. Experience in coordinating the technical work of other engineers team size 5 to 40, including individuals located within the same team and in other parts of the organisation. Experience of presenting technical information to the customer. Knowledge of current flight Hardware Products Processors Cryptographic Products. An understanding of cryptographic processing in both flight and ground systems is desirable. Knowledge of PCB schematic design and component selection for a flight environment, and the associated analyses. Knowledge of mixed signal design. Knowledge of the Mentor Design tool suite DX Designer, HyperLynx Analog. Understanding of the following standard interfaces JTAG, SpaceWire. Familiarity with FPGA products including Xilinx and Microsemi an understanding of FPGA ASIC design. Knowledge of Requirements Management using DOORS. Circuit Simulation PSpice. Basic knowledge of a scripting language e.g. Tcl, Perl. You have good communication and team working skills, keen to mentor and guide the detailed design engineers. Please apply on line for this vacancy on line at our careers site www.jobs.airbusgroup.com with your CV attached. To apply click here
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