Hardware Design Authority (Power Electronics)

Job Description

Position: Hardware Design Authority – Power Electronics (Hybrid). Location: Glenrothes, Fife or Livingston, Scotland, with relocation assistance available.

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for or able to obtain SC-level security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive assurance and quality of the products design and its artefacts.
• Mentor hardware engineers and future Design Authorities.
• Provide technical leadership within a multi disciplinary design team.
• Lead the design and development of power electronic systems, from concept through to qualification and beyond.
• Lead by example with respect to Compliance, Safety and Quality, embracing internal and external processes.
• Solve complex technical problems on both new developments and existing products.
• Capture, interpret, and derive customer requirements into clearly bounded design specifications.
• Ensure high quality schematics, simulations, PCB designs, and support component selection, evaluation, and verification.
• Direct design reviews, commissioning, debug, fault diagnosis, and lifecycle support.
• Design to cost and schedule, working effectively within approved budgets.
• Ensure designs meet relevant industry, customer, and regulatory standards.
• Guarantee configuration control and manage design change.
• Challenge the team to ensure clear, concise technical documentation and reports.
• Act as a technical authority in customer discussions within your area of expertise.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Compliance of products to defence engineering standards (DEF-STAN, MIL-STD, etc.).
• Design for, and compliance to, European Directives (Low Voltage Directive, Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive, etc.).
• Product design for Manufacture, Assembly and Test.
• Leading a design team while mentoring others to improve the overall standard of deliverables and product design.
• Reviewing and producing detailed analysis, simulation, and technical reports.
• Applying a systems engineering approach across the full product lifecycle.
• Significant experience in power electronics design, including a range of topologies.
• Proven ability to design from prototype through to production.
• Experience designing custom or semi custom magnetic components.
• Strong understanding of embedded digital electronics, including microprocessors.
• Practical experience with schematic capture, PCB design, and verification.
• Ability to analyse problems using SPICE based and Simulink simulation tools, make sound engineering decisions, and communicate outcomes clearly.
• Comfortable operating in a changing environment with competing priorities.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with ADC/DAC, memory devices (SRAM, Flash), and mixed signal design.
• Familiarity with Mentor Xpedition.
• Experience developing DO 254 compliant electronic systems.
• Experience with FPGAs, SoCs, and high speed digital interfaces.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, with an option to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• 37hr working week, with remote, hybrid, or site based options depending on role and site.
• Flexible working culture focused on output rather than hours at desk.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTXRaytheonUK adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.