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Senior System Engineer - Electronic Products

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Job Title: Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products
Location: Hampshire
Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 basic + benefits

Our client is looking for a talented Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products with a strong background in the Electronic OEM sector to join their growing R&D team. This is a key role in the design, development, testing and integration of application-specific products that solve complex engineering challenges.
  
You’ll work across firmware, electronic hardware, mechanical design and system architecture, interpreting user needs, defining system requirements, and ensuring solutions are reliable, efficient and secure.
  
They would like someone in the office c3 days a week, but are open to someone working from home a lot more than that. They would like someone to be up to 2 hours from their office, so they can get in when needed. But the right person could work from home most of the time.
  
The Role - Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products
As a Senior System Engineer, you’ll take ownership of system-level design and help shape the architecture of embedded products. You’ll be working with multidisciplinary teams including software, electronics, mechanical design, test and product management, ensuring that requirements are clear, achievable and fully integrated.
  
Key Responsibilities - Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products

Develop system architecture with a focus on performance, scalability and power efficiency
Capture and clarify system requirements across firmware, electronic and mechanical.
Negotiate requirements with Product Management, Sales and internal stakeholders
Integrate hardware and software components into complete systems
Develop and execute test plans to ensure system reliability and compliance
Collaborate with software, electronic and mechanical engineers throughout development
Produce and maintain comprehensive design and system documentation About You - Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products
You’ll be a problem-solver who enjoys technical challenges and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate will bring the following:

You’ll have a strong technical understanding of what goes into designing complex electronic products. You won’t be writing embedded software code or designing electronic circuits, but you’ll need to be technical enough in these areas to do detailed, technical product definition.
You’ll need to work out how you're going to test/verify the new designs from R&D meet the original design specifications.
Understanding of automated testing and how to write requirements for it.
Any knowledge of IoT and/or RF/Wireless technology would be beneficial, but not essential.  This is a great opportunity to join a successful, rapidly expanding electronic products company offering excellent career development opportunities.
  
If you have any specific questions about this Senior System Engineer – Electronic Products role in Hampshire, please call David on (phone number removed)

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