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Hardware Design Engineer

Engineering – Operations · Woking, Surrey

Background

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations. 

At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.  Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.  Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

Purpose of the Role

Sitting within the multi-disciplined Hardware Design team, you will design, develop and test new and existing electronics for Electronic Control Units used within our motorsport, automotive and aerospace customers.

Principal Accountabilities

• You will be able to demonstrate your design ability with both analogue and digital circuits, normally with CAN based communications and some power electronics. You will be comfortable speaking with customers to support existing designs alongside defining future product design specifications.
• You will undertake and manage the full development cycle from specification, design, schematic capture, through to supporting PCB layout, manufacture and assembly operations while following and developing design procedures.
• You will design to best practices in terms of EMC, thermal management, and product reliability. You can comfortably take designs from concept through to market, whilst maintaining both the pace and accuracy expected from a high-performance team.
• You will be able to demonstrate examples of optimising circuit design, for ease of manufacture and production test, and component design to maximise efficiency, package density, layout efficiency, reliability and thermal performance

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Can work as part of a multi-discipline team including hardware, software and mechanical engineers. Solid experience within an electronics design role with a first class or upper 2nd honours degree in a relevant electrical or electronic engineering subject, equivalent experience or accredited engineering pathway.
• Will have a natural curiosity for leading edge technology and demonstrate an inclusive and collaborative workplace style.
• Must have the right to work in the UK

McLaren Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do.