Hardware Development Engineer
Landis+Gyr
Manchester, United Kingdom
Role Overview
- Research and develop solutions for the measurement of gas flow, utilizing hardware engineering, embedded software development and applied science skills;
- Investigate and improve performance capabilities of new and existing products;
- Provide expert technical advice to wider functions within L+G.
Responsibilities
- As an experienced development engineer with substantial hardware and firmware development experience, you will work within a multidisciplined team and provide gas flow measurement system development expertise;
- You must be able to read and understand regulatory compliance and customer requirements:
- Identify critical performance parameters;
- Evaluate existing designs to determine if they meet those requirements;
- Translate the requirements into specific design targets for other development teams;
- Make recommendations as to which solutions proposed, best meets the needs of the project.
- You will identify, research, and develop improved methods of measuring the flow of gases, providing definitions of measurement system architectures to the wider R&D team;
- You may be required to identify and liaise with external test houses or research service providers, where L+G don’t have internal capabilities;
- You will design, prototype and evaluate functional blocks required to implement the product measurement functions;
- Review product test results, against product requirements, identify non-compliances and propose solutions;
- Record and report findings, including writing detailed technical reports for consumption by technical and nontechnical readers;
- Support and guide the hardware development team members during product development, with hands on hardware development where necessary;
- Support and guide the measurement firmware development team, providing effective code reviews, and hands on firmware development when necessary;
- Work directly with NPI teams, to specify how products should be calibrated and tested for volume manufacturing;
- Assist the quality department with product non-compliance investigations, applying knowledge of hardware, software, material science and learned product knowledge.
Person Specification/Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or similar in Electronic EngineeringPhysics;
- Recent experience developing low powered electronic measurement systemsdevices;
- Embedded C software development experience, Linux environment also desirable;
- Good, applied science knowledge base including Physics;
- Good statistical data analysis capabilities, with experience of standard statistical analysis tools (e.g. Minitab);
- Self-driven and highly innovative;
- Working knowledge of project planning/control methods e.g. Gantt charts;
- Excellent written and verbal communicator;
- Experience with Ultrasonic measurement techniques;
- Experience of gas flow measurement techniques;
- Experience of design for high volume product manufacture;
- Experience with MatlabMathcad;
- Experience with COMSOL or other FEA Simulation Tools;
- Understanding of SQL;
- Able to work to high standards of quality and precision;
- Be computer literate in Microsoft Word and Excel to an intermediate level;
- Possess a good standard of both written and spoken English;
- An ability to work within a team, with minimal supervision.
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