Job description
Senior PCB Design Engineer
Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £45000 - £60000 pa + excellent benefits
We’re looking for an experienced PCB layout engineer to join our team, delivering class-leading products across our Focusrite, Novation and Focusrite Pro brands.
About you:
You’re passionate about designing and bringing products to market, solving difficult technical challenges, and sharing your knowledge and experience with others. You have a proven track record of delivering PCB designs and have demonstrated your skills across several successful projects. You’re a great communicator, able to integrate and contribute quickly with a multidisciplinary delivery team. You’re always looking to expand your skillset, learn new tools and improve the way we work.
The successful candidate will have experience of cost-optimised high volume products. A background in audio tech, consumer electronics, audio or video equipment, set-top box, network equipment etc. would be well-suited to the role. Pro audio / audio industry experience would be ideal, along with knowledge of Altium Designer and Zuken Cadstar.
This role can be performed remotely, but please note that attendance at our head office in High Wycombe will be required every 2-3 months.
About the role:
You’ll work closely with a team of electronics engineers who have considerable layout experience but are not specialists - that will be you.
In addition to designing PCBs, you’ll ensure that we’re making the best use of our tools and you’ll own our layout process and practices.
Depending on your experience and aspirations there’ll be opportunities to develop this role beyond PCB layout, for example into schematic or electromechanical design.
You can expect to:
Design mixed-signal PCBs, balancing challenging cost, time to market and quality constraints.
Act as the PCB CAD expert within our hardware community, providing guidance and support to other CAD users.
Work with mechanical and electrical engineers to establish best practices for PCB design.
Liaise with our factories and production engineers to reduce PCB cost and improve yield.
Assist in troubleshooting issues with PCB manufacture and test.
Own our tools, parts libraries and PCB design processes.
Support our current Zuken Cadstar tools and lead our adoption of Altium Designer.
Essential skills/ experienc e:
5+ years in a PCB layout or electronics design role.
Altium Designer.
PCB design for cost-effective, high-volume manufacture.
Design for signal integrity and EMC compliance.
Strong technical communication skills.
Ability to manage workload, estimate tasks and deliver to plan.
Experience of the following would be a significant advantage:
Consumer electronics.
Zuken Cadstar Classic – this will be required for the role, but is not a prerequisite.
Production engineering (factory test methods, PCB assembly).
Audio, instrumentation or other high-performance analogue designs.
Active interest in audio and music technology.
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen’s Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in ‘The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
