Hardware Design Engineer

Hardware Design Engineer required for a contract role with our rail client in York, to carry out Design of digital electronic hardware and VHDL for hardware platform products.

Key Duties:

Design of electronic hardware products, primarily safety-critical and safety-related digital hardware life cycle responsibility of hardware designs from specification through to manufacturing introduction
Production of product documentation and manufacturing information

Essential Requirements:

Minimum first degree in electronics or equivalent
Experienced in high speed digital and Embedded Microprocessor design
Experienced in Ethernet circuit design
Experienced in working with PCB layout designers to achieve right-first-time designs
Experienced in designing to meet EMC requirements in a harsh environment
Good PC skills including use of MS Office tools

Desirable Requirements:

Understanding of the rigorous requirements of a safety-critical environment
Experience of use of Mentor Graphics DXDesigner CAE capture for electronic design
Experience of signal integrity analysis for PCBs
Experience in a high integrity industry - Rail, Defence or Avionics
Experience of producing high quality VHDL written to formal processes

Please apply with your CV.