Principal / Lead Hardware Engineer
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Bedford
Principal / Lead Hardware Engineer Location: Luton, Bedfordshire (LU1) Duration: 12 Months Onsite: 90% onsite Rate: £95.44ph UMBRELLA Security: We seek an engineer with recent high-integrity or safety-critical industry experience (defence, aerospace, or similar), or eligible for UK security clearance. The Opportunity We're looking for an experienced Principal / Lead Hardware Engineer to join a major defence programme developing advanced electronic systems for air, land and maritime platforms. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on complex FPGA and processor-based hardware, contributing throughout the full product lifecycle—from requirements capture and architecture through detailed design, integration, verification and qualification. You'll be working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver high-performance electronic hardware for safety and mission-critical applications. Key Responsibilities • Design and develop complex digital and mixed-signal electronic hardware., • Develop hardware architectures for FPGA, SoC and processor-based solutions., • Produce schematics and support PCB layout for high-speed digital designs., • Design and validate interfaces such as DDR memory, PCIe, Ethernet and other high-speed protocols., • Integrate hardware with embedded software, firmware and FPGA solutions., • Carry out simulation, verification, validation and design analysis activities., • Support board bring-up, hardware debugging and fault investigation., • Work collaboratively with Systems, Software, Firmware, RF, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering teams., • Support environmental, EMC/EMI and qualification testing., • Produce technical documentation throughout the engineering lifecycle., • Support system integration, demonstrations and customer acceptance activities where required. Essential Skills & Experience, • Strong background in high-speed digital hardware design within defence, aerospace or other highly regulated industries., • Experience designing FPGA and SoC-based hardware (Xilinx, AMD, Intel/Altera or equivalent)., • Proven experience designing complex multilayer PCBs, including:, • High-speed serial interfaces, • DDR memory, • High-performance processors, • FPGA-based digital signal processing, • Experience using schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, Xpedition or equivalent., • Hands-on board-level debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and protocol analysers., • Experience integrating hardware with embedded firmware and software., • Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity and timing analysis., • Experience supporting verification, validation and qualification activities., • Ability to translate system requirements into robust hardware designs. Desirable Experience, • Electronic Warfare, Radar, RF, Communications or Sensor technologies., • Development of safety-critical or mission-critical systems., • FPGA signal processing., • Knowledge of DO-254, DEF STAN, MIL-STD or equivalent industry standards., • Hardware design reviews and technical leadership., • Design for Manufacture (DfM), Design for Test (DfT) and Design for Reliability (DfR). JBRP1_UKTJ