WFS Technologies Electronics Engineer Livingston   Competitive basic + Share Options

Company Overview

WFS Technologies is the world leading supplier of low frequency radio systems for through-water and through-ground wireless communication, location and navigation. The company’s innovative products are sold to customers in the subsea oil & gas, environmental, consumer and defence markets.

WFS is seeking an electronics engineer to join a talented development team at our offices in Livingston, Scotland or Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Full hardware development life cycle from requirements capture to final delivery

• Digital & analogue design including schematic capture & layout

• Hardware development of bespoke customer requirements

• Interfacing with manufacturing department and external electronic suppliers

Job Description

Hardware Development:

• Manage hardware development throughout whole life cycle

• Write requirements specifications

• Arrange and conduct internal design reviews

• Maintain version control of hardware

• Maintain hardware documentation

Testing:

• Specify and maintain test documentation

• Manage hardware upgrade procedures

Integration with Third party Equipment:

• Interface WFS equipment with other hardware, such as sensor instrumentation

Required Experience

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in hardware development

• Good problem solving skills

• Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team

• Knowledge of the full hardware development life cycle

• Ability to work to tight timescales

• Fault finding and debugging (JTAG) with knowledge of hardware vs. software issues

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Degree in electronics or similar subject

Technical Competence

Essential

• Sensor Electronics and interfacing

• Microcontroller System design and interfacing

• Digital Signal Processor System Design and Interfacing

• Low Power System Design

• Component Selection and sourcing

• Schematic entry using Altium Designer

• PCB Layout using Altium Designer

 Preferred

• Embedded firmware programming experience

• Experience of subsea oil & gas industry

• Switched and linear Power Amplifiers up to 2MHz

• Low noise pre-amplifiers up to 2MHz.

• Switched D.C. converters up to 200W

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