Senior Hardware Developer

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Job Reference CAR/SHD/NOV24

Salary Competitive, depending on experience

Working Hours Full-time (37.5 hours)

Location Hybrid (3+ days per week in our Chiswick office)

Contract Type Permanent

About Us

Carallon is a product research and development company creating industry-leading award-winning products. Based in London, we specialise in industrial hardware and software design for the entertainment industry; encompassing lighting control, LED video processing and motion control. The products we design are used to make feature films, large-scale concerts and spectacular events, and to control the lighting of theme parks and landmark architecture around the world.

Job Summary

The senior hardware developer position is within our development team, which works concurrently on a variety of exciting, cutting-edge projects. We use some of the largest and most advanced FPGAs available, supported by high bandwidth DDR memory, multi-gigabit serial interfaces and PCBs of up to 18 layers. We build products for professional use with an expectation of reliability and robustness. To accomplish this, we continuously invest in tools for every stage of the process, including design, simulation, test and manufacturing. We're seeking a hands-on engineer with a willingness and enthusiasm to experiment and tackle problems, and we value initiative, imagination and technical creativity.

We offer a very friendly, flexible and supportive working environment. Our development team is close-knit and highly motivated with a keen interest in the products it creates. A successful candidate should be similarly minded to work in the driven, focused environment required to bring original and ground-breaking products to market.

At Carallon we place a strong value on long-term relationships with our employees and our clients. We are looking for candidates who are interested in developing their career in partnership with us, joining our employee-owned company where we all contribute to (and benefit from) our shared purpose.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of electronics products from concept through to schematic design, PCB layout through to manufacture
• Working with external manufacturers to build prototypes and design production processes, and guiding products through regulatory compliance
• Working closely with embedded firmware and FPGA developers in both design and debugging
• Investigating reported issues from manufacturing or technical support to determine cause and advise on resolutions for both existing and future products

Essential Qualifications

• Able to demonstrate a genuine interest and passion in electronics specifically, and engineering in general
• 4-5 years industry experience of electronics engineering contributing to products which have shipped
• Significant schematic design using tools such as OrCAD
• Significant PCB layout of circuit boards of 6 layers or above ideally with BGA devices or other similar complexity
• Experience in designing for processors or FPGAs
• Practical skills in assembling, testing and modifying electronics components down to 0402 but also re-work large pin count devices such as MCUs
• Analytical skills, including the ability to understand and reason about complex information
• Ability to apply existing knowledge to unfamiliar problems, suggest possible design solutions, and critique relative merits of different designs
• Evidence of the ability to lead a project, sharing skills, experience and interests with colleagues
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written English
• Electronics Engineering undergraduate degree, 2:1 or above, or relevant professional experience
• Line management experience or previous experience mentoring / supporting colleagues
• Previous exposure to EMC measurement, design mitigation and debugging techniques
• Experience taking multiple products from concept through to PCB through to manufacturing in volume including skills such as design for manufacture and design for test
• Past experience in resolving issues post manufacture.

Desirable Extras

Experience of any of the following:

• High-speed digital design and measurement techniques
• Signal integrity simulation
• DDR Memory system design
• FPGA based systems
• EMC compliance techniques
• High layer-count PCB design (>8 layers)
• XJTAG boundary scan test system
• OrCAD Cadence or Zuken Cadstar PCB design software
• Client management and client-facing roles Interest in audio, video or lighting for live entertainment
• Excellent time management, including the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks appropriately