Electronics Engineer

Greenford, England, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

Senior Firmware Engineer

The Role

The role is focused on stakeholder engagement, requirements capture and development of low-cost and high reliability electronics onto existing and future platforms, as well as development of internal prototypes and test equipment. It requires a good knowledge of power, analog and embedded electronics as well as interest in embedded designs. This is a vital role in the creation and improvement of all Electric platforms within Brompton Bicycle, requiring a can-do approach candidate. Moreover, candidate will have opportunity to contribute toward electronic system architecture design, maturity, ways of working, promoting good engineering practices and system engineering.

Main duties

• Contributing to the development of low-cost & high reliability electronics into moderate volume markets through the entire engineering lifecycle,
• Designing, analysing, and verifying electronics for consumer facing products, internal prototypes and test equipment,
• Supporting technical development, other team members as well as external stakeholders on ad hoc basis,
• Working on improvements and quality into all aspects of Brompton’s electronics, including policy, process and detailed design,
• Supporting Systems and Software engineers to develop requirements & architectures, resolve complex systematic issues and integrate software onto hardware,
• Assisting manufacturers with test equipment for electronic product lines, end of line testers.
  
  

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience of product life cycle design and support in electronics team setting
• Preparing and presenting designs and concepts for electronic products and systems to colleagues, management and other stakeholders,
• Drawing up detailed drawings, schematics and models using computer design software,
• Review and release drawing including schematic, pcb capture and assembly drawing to manufacturers
• Designing and building electronic components and circuits for use in products,
• Basic understanding of software and ability to work with software (flashing/debugging tools and similar),
• Ability to prepare cost estimates for product and technical solution.
• Experience of defining and performing set-to-work and verification & validation, including simulation, worst-case analysis, bench testing,
• Running effective testing and diagnostics that lead to measured product improvements,
• General knowledge and understanding of EMC in a power electronics context,
  
  

Desirable Skills

• It would be beneficial to have knowledge of 3-phase inverters, DC-DC converters, microcontrollers, and analog electronics,
• It would be advantages to have prior experience with PCB layout design and design for manufacturing.
• Experience of working with electronic manufacturing in a moderate volume commercial or automotive context and interfacing with suppliers
• Knowledge and/or experience of Systems Engineering principles, e.g. Requirements, Traceability,
• Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously,
• Knowledge of system engineering would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of working to safety standards, e.g. IEC61508, ISO26262,
• Knowledge of selecting and specifying cabling & connectors,
• Knowledge of batteries and electric machines.
  
  

Education

Ideally the individual will have the following educational and professional qualifications or experience:

• Degree education in related subjects (computer science, systems engineering, electronics, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or equivalent),
• The ability to demonstrate a solid engineering/technical background in a relevant environment,
• The ability to demonstrate hands-on experience in a similar role,
• The successful candidate will have at least 3+ years’ experience as an engineer, within R&D or commercial product design in electronics setting.