Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are looking to recruit a Electronics Engineer to join our Electronics team to be a key part of project delivery teams, leading technical tasks for overall successful delivery of client projects.

Key responsibilities     

Working as part of a multi-national team you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Provide technical delivery of electrical and electronic projects.
• Deliver projects on time in budget.
• Responsible for system design, development, and validation of electrical and electronic systems.
• Detailed electrical circuit design.
• Support of PCB layout.
• Generation of product and test specifications.
• Liaison with mechanical engineering with regard to enclosure design.
• Support of prototype and volume manufacture.
• Prototype debug and test.
• Technical support of the sales team.
• Communicate directly with clients on technical issues.
• Liaise with suppliers/subcontractors to develop specifications and solutions.

Key Competencies and Experience

The successful candidate will have most of the following:

• Degree in an Electrical/Electronics Engineering discipline.
• Ability to design analogue, digital and power electronics systems.
• Familiar with product delivery process from requirements capture through to design validation.
• Experience in compliance engineering to external standards, such as EMC, vehicle safety etc.
• Strong teamwork, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.

Additional skills that would be advantageous include:

• Experience in design for manufacture.
• Experience in a schematic entry, ideally using Altium Designer.
• Experience using schematic simulation tools – pSpice, LTSpice based.
• Electronic circuits design knowledge.
• Electronics Manufacturing and Test Experience.
• Experienced in automotive electronics design.
• Experience in delivering DFMEA for design.
• Worst Case Circuit Analysis.
• Previous experience in designing products using 8, 16 or 32bit microcontrollers.
• Experience of schematic capture packages.
• Basic understanding of the requirements of electronics packaging.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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