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Department Description
Edesix (a Motorola Solutions company) designs and delivers a range of body-worn and in-car video hardware, software and service solutions to organisations around the world and across a range of industries, including: Police and Security services, Local government, Security, Retail and Transport. To help drive our rapid growth, we are looking for an Electronics Design Engineer (Principal Hardware Engineer) on a permanent contract and based at our central Edinburgh office. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, where you will be exposed to the latest technologies and where your hard work and dedication will be rewarded, then joining our team could be your best career move.

Job Description
As Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for the creation, implementation and documentation of electronic hardware systems. You will work as part of a team on complex electronics/hardware projects being a key member and driving force in the detailed design of the system. Other tasks will include: systems testing of products, product documentation, design reviews, and customer support.

Basic Requirements
– The ideal candidate will be proactive and self-motivated, have a methodical approach to problem solving, demonstrate strong leadership skills, and be capable of driving ideas/projects forward.
– Uses and understands appropriate methodologies to design, build and test complex systems – can interpret datasheets, protocol documents and design specifications
– Electronic system architecture, design and component selection optimising for performance, size and power budgets
– Image sensors, real-time and recorded HD video, WiFi and GPS
– Schematic capture and high density PCB layout using a modern toolchain – ideally Allegro or Altium. Experience with rechargeable battery powered embedded systems ideal.
– Design for success in a high speed world: candidate must understand the issues around high speed signals, EMC, signal integrity.
– Design for manufacture: candidate must have experience of designs that are intended for volume manufacturing, so issues around BOM cost, manufacturability, testability.
– Test systems/software: candidate ideally has exposure to writing test routines for new hardware and some basic Linux skills as a user (no requirement for actual Linux development skills).
– Supply chain management during development: candidate should be able to deal with the supply chain required to get prototypes manufactured.
– RF (WiFi/BT/LTE): candidate must have previous exposure to at least one of these technologies at a design level, including antennas (no need for actual antenna design, but must understand how to integrate a 3rd party antenna successfully).
– Regulatory Approvals: candidate must have experience of supporting products through the regulatory process, starting at the design level and carrying on throughout the product development life cycle. Must have some understanding of the technical issues relating to compliance (EMC, safety).
– A degree in a relevant subject Electronics/Science/Engineering or equivalent, with 5+, ideally 10+ year's experience in a similar role

Most importantly, what would he be working on?

We have two new hardware families being developed.

1. New retail body camera.

Here you will be responsible for the hardware architecture, schematics, layout and verification of this new camera. You will report to the CTO and will be supported by the embedded systems team for all things relating to firmware.

As well as the body camera itself there are intelligent docking & charging solutions that need to be developed.

2. Upgraded aggregator device.

We have an existing aggregator used to connect up to 84 body cameras to a single Gigabit Ethernet port. This is now an old design and it needs to be updated to a new CPU and IO architecture, as well as to support embedded storage. As per the body

camera, you'll report to the CTO and be supported by the embedded systems team.

In addition to the new designs there are ongoing activities relating to existing designs or designs that are currently approaching mass production. Here you will work with the existing hardware engineering team to help identify issues and design mitigations for them.

Finally, working with the CTO deliver an improved hardware development process that helps improve the quality of the designs we produce, reducing field failures and unexpected issues. A focus on documentation, test planning and test execution will be required.