Electronics Engineer – Aerospace & Defence

Location: Portsmouth
UK Nationals Only (Security Restrictions Apply)

A leading company in the Aerospace & Defence sector is looking for experienced Electronics Engineers with full lifecycle experience. In this role, you will develop and implement critical hardware electronic solutions across the entire development lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, legislation, and safety standards.

Role Overview
This is a safety-critical position where you will:

Interpret system requirements into clear, unambiguous hardware design requirements
Develop Hardware Development Plans to define workflow
Design, analyze, commission, and verify analogue and digital circuits
Collaborate with systems, safety, software, and mechanical engineers
Support hardware qualification activities and production troubleshooting
Key Responsibilities
Document design activities and ensure traceability to requirements, maintaining compliance with project, company, or regulatory standards
Work collaboratively across disciplines to ensure hardware-level requirements are met and to resolve trade-offs or design challenges
Contribute to system architectures, evaluate alternative concepts, and determine evidence-based preferred solutions
Provide support to production to resolve build or obsolescence issues and respond to customer requests or investigations
Plan, generate, and validate results of hardware verification plans and procedures
Specify, design, commission, and verify equipment test solutions to support verification, qualification activities, and production
Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
Essential:

Experience managing the full electronics lifecycle
Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering or HND with significant relevant work experience
Proven experience developing high-integrity designs within a critical safety environment
Ability to present complex engineering concepts in a clear and understandable manner
Capability to independently manage workload to meet technical, quality, and schedule requirements
Willingness to work on safety-critical products in a highly regulated industry
Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and web browsers
Desirable:

Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering disciplines
Experience documenting designs for formal qualification or certification
Awareness of simple embedded software to facilitate hardware/software integration
Some knowledge of lean design techniques