Hardware Design Engineer, 12483, Essex

Hardware Design Engineer, Essex Our client has further expanded their product range and so need Hardware Design Engineers of different levels of seniority to add to their team. Working in a small company environment means that the majority of each design is completed by an individual Hardware Design Engineer who quickly becomes involved with all aspects of the product design and development. Short design timescales are an important part of our development strategy, which also results in the Hardware Design Engineers being involved in many different product designs quite quickly. The role of the Hardware Design Engineer will include: Design and development of single board computer products from definition through to introduction to manufacturing Production technical support Project leading and design reviewing Maintaining awareness of new technologies Pre and post-sales backup to our technical support team The more senior role will involve additional team management responsibilities, both at the technical level and also in terms of personnel management. The ideal candidate for the role of Hardware Design Engineer: Good academic background Post graduate experience of digital hardware design Familiar with some or all of the following: The ability to communicate effectively with others within the company at an engineering level. 32/64 bit microprocessors, preferably Intel 80x86 architecture High performance communications peripheral devices, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet Complex programmable logic devices High performance bus architectures e.g. PCI-Express, RapidIO, CompactPCI or VME High speed digital logic (400MHz and faster) Advanced memory technologies, e.g. DDR or DDR III SDRAM Hardware Design Engineer, Essex