Electronics Design Engineer

Job Description

Electronics Design Engineer ?? Great Yarmouth ?? Up to £60,000 DOE + Bonus ?? Full-Time | Permanent We are delighted to be partnering with a highly respected and innovative engineering business with a global footprint in advanced technology. Our client is a long-established specialist in the design and manufacture of cutting‑edge sonar and subsea sensing systems used across hydrographic surveying, marine research, and dredging operations worldwide.

With decades of engineering excellence behind them and continued investment in next‑generation technologies, they are at the forefront of real‑time data innovation and intelligent systems. This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, forward‑thinking organisation where your expertise will directly influence product development and technical innovation.

As an Electronics Design Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development, enhancement and lifecycle support of advanced electronic sonar systems. Working within a collaborative engineering environment, you’ll contribute to both new product development and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Designing and developing electronic products to meet defined technical specifications
• Creating schematics and multi‑layer PCB designs, supported by modelling, simulation and validation testing
• Conducting testing, fault‑finding, root cause analysis and repair of existing systems
• Participating in formal design reviews at key project milestones
• Producing and maintaining comprehensive product documentation (BoMs, Gerbers, fabrication drawings, assembly guides, test procedures and manuals)
• Supporting product validation activities, including acoustic measurement and performance verification
• Collaborating closely with Procurement, Manufacturing, Test and Quality teams
• Providing technical support to internal teams and international customers (occasional UK and overseas travel required)
• Liaising with third‑party partners during design, prototyping and manufacturing phases

You will be a degree‑qualified (or equivalent) Electronics Engineer with a minimum of three years’ experience designing electronic products and embedded PC systems.

• Mixed signal design incorporating SoC, FPGA, control and logic systems
• Switching power supplies and analogue amplifier design
• Isolated systems and high‑power transducer driver stages
• System‑level design and validation

• C/C++, VHDL and associated development tools (e.g. Git)
• Altium Designer (schematic capture, PCB layout, SPICE simulation)
• Communication protocols including SPI, I2C, Ethernet/IP (TCP/UDP/ICMP), RS-232, JTAG, NMEA
• High‑voltage systems (up to 400V DC)
• MATLAB and digital signal processing techniques
• Data acquisition systems and DSP methods (filtering, mixing, down‑sampling)
• Use of laboratory test equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analysers, spectrum analysers, power analysers, active loads, etc.)

• Competitive salary up to £60,000
• Annual company performance bonus
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours with the opportunity to accrue an additional day’s leave per month
• Private medical insurance for your family
• Worldwide travel insurance (employee + partner)
• Matched pension contributions up to 8%
• Death in service cover
• Enhanced sick pay
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free on‑site electric vehicle charging
• Regular wellbeing initiatives and team events

This is an opportunity to join a technically ambitious organisation operating on a global stage. You’ll work on highly specialised products within a collaborative team where your ideas are heard, your development is supported, and your contribution genuinely matters. If you’re an experienced Electronics Design Engineer looking for a role where innovation meets real‑world impact, we’d love to hear from you.