Hardware Development Engineer

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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.