Senior Electronics Engineer

Salisbury, Wiltshire
Naim Audio
Description

Naim are looking for a hands-on, all-rounder Electronics Engineer to join us working as part of our world class research and development team. All work carried out in this department requires the need to embrace Naim’s design ethos and working practices. The R&D team is cross functional and you will 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, prototyping, creating schematics, designing PCBs then testing and assisting with the transition to manufacture.

Key Responsibilities

Electronics 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.
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

Technical Skills

You are expected to have a strong electronics background, preferably with experience in modern digital technologies such as dealing with the high speed digital signals commonly found with DSP and FPGA designs. Knowledge of RF technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi would be beneficial, as would experience of dealing with EMC sensitive applications.
Able to demonstrate knowledge in multiple technical areas related to digital systems design such as digital audio systems, high speed circuit design, FPGA or RF design.
Lab skills such as debugging prototypes in collaboration with firmware engineers and using test equipment such as modern oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
ECAD user, preferably Altium.
Knowledge of and ability to design to global safety and EMC standards.
Familiarity with modern collaborative development tools and techniques such as Confluence and Jira.
Communications Skills
Good listener
Team player, ready to help and share knowledge
Fact based and rational argument
Personality profile
Organised and structured
Rigourous and exhaustive
Reliable and punctual
Open to challenges
Qualifications/Experience
Degree qualified in Electronics Engineering or similar discipline.
8+ Years of experience of working in a commercial environment designing complex electronics products.
Digital electronics design experience as a must.
Analogue electronics design experience as a nice to have.
Experience in the audio industry could be beneficial.
Experience as Team Leader could be a plus.

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)

About Naim Audio
Naim founder Julian Vereker MBE () was a racing car driver, entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Julian found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved.

Not content with second best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century.

This maverick approach to design, backed by over 40 years of engineering and craft, fuels our progress today. Choose Naim to go deeper into your music, for a completely immersive and involving listening experience.

Our hiring process

Stage 1: Applied
Stage 2: Review
Stage 3: Preliminary screening
Stage 4: Initial interview with hiring manager
Stage 5: On-site interview
Stage 6: Hired