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Job Description
What will you be doing?
Alten Ltd is seeking a Electronics Digital Engineer, you will join our Edinburgh team to support our activities within the UK Defence sector. You will work on cutting-edge sensor and communication systems embedded in mission-critical platforms, applying your electronic design expertise in a complex, regulated environment. From high-speed digital design to low-noise analogue circuits, this is a career-defining opportunity to contribute to next-generation defence systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop digital and analogue electronic circuits for aerospace and defence applications
- Produce detailed schematics, PCB layouts, and supporting technical documentation using professional tools
- Support prototyping, verification and validation testing, and troubleshoot at both board and system level
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, software and systems to support integration and delivery
- Participate in design reviews, ensuring adherence to safety, reliability, EMC and regulatory standards
- Liaise with project teams to support design-for-manufacture and ensure smooth transition to production
Qualifications
Experience, skills and qualifications required:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline OR a relevant technical military background with equivalent hands-on engineering experience
- Must be eligible for UK SC Security Clearance (Minimum 5 Years in the UK)
- 5+ years of experience in electronics hardware design, preferably within defence or aerospace sectors
- Strong proficiency with PCB development tools, preferably Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics)
- Extensive knowledge or specialism in one or more of the following:
- High-speed digital circuit design, including LVDS, JESD204, or Ethernet communication
- FPGA and processor circuit design, including use of DDR memory and associated support circuits
- Low-noise analogue design, including ADC/DAC and signal conditioning
- Power supply design, especially low power, compact, low noise supplies
- Experience in circuit simulation, signal and power integrity analysis, and DFx (Design for Cost, Test, Manufacturability)
- Background in system-level integration, debugging, and test strategy development
- Knowledge of Matlab/Simulink is beneficial
- Experience developing solutions with attention to quality, reliability, safety and testability
Additional Information
Why join us?
We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.
Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.
We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.
We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. We're here to empower you and help you reach your full potential.
Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today!
In short you get:
- A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
- A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
- A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
- A competitive salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
- Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
- Flexible way of working (role dependent)
