Electronic Design Engineer

A Hampshire-based aerospace business is looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer to lead hands-on design and development of avionics electronics for an unmanned aircraft platform. You'll own designs from first principles through prototype build, qualification, and support into production - working closely with systems, software, mechanical and manufacturing teams.

• Design & develop avionics electronics (analog, digital and power) for aerospace hardware
• Take designs from concept to product: robust, scalable, mass-producible and cost-optimised
• Support qualification / certification activities to standards such as DO-160 / DO-254 and associated test regimes
• Work with compliance/regulatory needs (including SORA) and environmental qualification (e.g. IP68 style requirements)
• Support integration, field trials and flight test activities (UAVs and subsystem prototypes)
• Partner with manufacturing on production support, troubleshooting and continuous improvement
• Contribute to R&D workstreams advancing platform capability

• Degree: 2:1 or above in a STEM discipline
• Strong practical experience across electronics design, prototyping, and productisation
• Experience in some/all of:
  • SPICE modelling / simulation
  • Component selection + schematic capture
  • Multi-layer PCB design for high-reliability applications
  • EMC/EMI-aware design techniques
  • Altium Designer (preferred, not essential)
• Useful / nice-to-have:
  • Embedded C/C++ (ideally STM32 or similar)
  • Python (or scripting) for tooling, test, automation
  • Hands-on skills: soldering, cable assembly, prototype bring-up
  • UAV / flight-test exposure

• Strong problem-solving, comfortable delivering under pressure
• Clear communicator with good documentation and stakeholder management
• Proactive, organised, happy to lead multidisciplinary activity
• Interest in aviation/autonomy and advanced aerospace tech