Embedded Systems Electronics Engineer

KTP Associate (Embedded Systems Electronics Engineer)
Ref: T2--02
£22,000 to £28,000 depending on experience
Manchester
Fixed Term
39 hours per week

The Faculty of Science and Engineering is a thriving community of over 5,000 students and staff with an outstanding record of achievement in teaching and research and well-established links with industry. Our expertise spans healthcare science, biology, chemistry and forensic science, environmental and geographical science, engineering, physics, computing, mathematics and digital technology. In the last ten years we have invested over £50 million in our state-of-the-art laboratories, workshops and learning spaces. We recruit from over 100 countries around the world and our student body represents a wide mix of social backgrounds and ethnic origins, enriching the learning and social experience.

Role

Aquacheck Engineering is a small, well-established business, with a reputation for innovative problem solving, with excellent distribution networks and customer relationships providing significant opportunities for business growth and career progression.

You will work full-time on this 3-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the Manchester Metropolitan University and Aquacheck Engineering, to develop and launch a range of products incorporating Advanced Metering Infrastructure for sale within the water industry. Employed and supported by a team of academic experts from the university, you will be based at the company's premises in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

KTP is the largest graduate recruitment programme in Europe.

Ideal Candidate

Candidates will have experience in analogue and digital circuit design and simulation; RF and/or 4G; power supply design; FPGA; embedded or low level programming (e.g. C VHDL); Digital Signal Processing; database management system; and programming language (Java).

You will be confident, with good inter-personal skills and capable of working with a range of people across the Aquacheck team, its collaborators and customers.

You will also be a self-starter with high levels of initiative and motivation, and the ability to work autonomously to agreed targets and goals.

Closing date: 7 August 2015.

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