Senior Electronics Design Engineer

Naim Audio Ltd; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 125,000 - GBP 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audio technology firm is seeking a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to design electronics for its high-quality HiFi systems. You will work closely with various teams, involving yourself in the entire design process from concept to production, using your expertise in digital, analogue, and RF design. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Electronics Engineering and significant experience in developing complex electronics products. This role offers excellent benefits including 24 days of holiday and enhanced pension contributions.

Benefits

24 days holiday plus bank holidays

Free canteen

Free parking available on-site

Enhanced employer pension contribution (4% of gross salary)

Death in Service insurance

Employee discount on products

Wellbeing initiatives including EAP

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong electronics engineering background with experience in high-speed signals.
• History of designing complex electronics products.
• Depth of knowledge in digital systems such as digital audio, FPGA, and RF design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement electronic circuits for audio systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the development process.
• Simulate circuits, conduct EMC pre-scans, and prototype PCBs.

Skills

Circuit design

Digital technologies

Analogue design

Debugging prototypes

ECAD (Altium 360)

Collaborative tools

Education

Degree in Electronics Engineering

Tools

Altium 360

Modern oscilloscopes

Logic analysers

Job description

Senior Electronics Design Engineer

Department: R&D

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Salisbury

Description

Working at the heart of our R&D team your role is designing the electronics for the next generation of Naim Audio’s world class HiFi systems and, our sister company, Focal’s speakers. Using your experience of working with high complexity digital systems you will be responsible for designing and implementing the electronics circuits that make Naim Audio and Focal streaming music systems sound so good.

The R&D team is cross functional, and you’ll be working closely with embedded software engineers, mechanical designers and test engineers. From concept phase right through to production you will be involved in the electronics design process, simulating circuits, pre-scan of EMC rules, prototyping, creating schematics, designing PCBs then testing and assisting with the transition to manufacture.

Key Responsibilities

Electronic design:

• Digital circuit design including components such as Microprocessors, DSP, FPGA, DAC/ADC
• High speed digital design
• Power supply design, linear and switched mode.
• Analogue circuit simulation and design of amplifiers and audio filters
• Prototyping and bench testing PCBs and circuits.
• EMC and ESD
• Electronics design peer reviews
• Electronics architecture reviews
• Design feasibility evaluation

ECAD Design:

• Schematic design and PCB layout
• Analogue PCB design
• Power PCB design
• FPC and PCB Interconnection design
• System Integration
• Liaising with Suppliers and third parties:
• RF Design Consultants
• FFC and PCB Manufacturers
• Test Equipment suppliers
• Custom component design
• Sourcing component samples and liaising with companies for custom sample

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You are expected to have a strong electronics engineering background, preferable with a specialisation in modern digital technologies such as dealing with high-speed signals commonly found with DSP and FPGA designs. Knowledge of RF technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi would be beneficial, as would experience dealing with EMC sensitive applications.

• Degree qualified in Electronics engineering or similar discipline
• History of working in a commercial environment designing complex electronics products.
• Able to demonstrate depth of knowledge in multiple technical areas related to digital systems such as digital audio systems, high speed circuit design, FPGA or RF design.
• Analogue electronics design experience
• Lab skills such as debugging prototypes in collaboration with firmware engineers and using test equipment such as modern oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
• Experienced ECAD user, preferable Altium 360
• Knowledge and ability to design to global safety and EMC / ESD standards rules.
• Familiarity with modern collaborative development tools and techniques such as Confluence and Jira
• Experience in the audio industry would be beneficial where critical listening was part of the design process.

Benefits

• 24 days holiday, plus bank holidays - increasing with length of service
• Free canteen
• Free parking available on-site
• Enhanced employer pension contribution (4% of gross salary)
• Death in Service insurance
• Employee discount on Naim products
• Wellbeing initiatives, including an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and discounted memberships at select local gyms
• Alongside other, standard benefits (for example, training and development opportunities as appropriate to role)