Senior PCB Design Engineer

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 hardware 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 a background in audio tech, consumer electronics, scientific instrumentation or similar, with knowledge of Zuken Cadstar or Altium Designer.

About the role:

You’ll work closely with a team of Electronic 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 will own our layout process and practices. Depending on your experience and your aspirations, there’ll be opportunities to develop this role to include schematic design or focus on process improvement. You can initially expect to:

• Design mixed-signal PCBs, balancing challenging cost, time and quality constraints.
• Own our tools, parts libraries and PCB design processes.
• Become the PCB CAD expert within our hardware community.
• Liaise with our factories and production engineers to ensure cost-effective manufacturability of our PCBAs.
• Assist in troubleshooting issues with manufacture and test.
• Work with our hardware community to establish best practice for PCB design.

Essential skills/ experience:

• 5 years’ experience in a PCB layout or electronics design role.
• Zuken Cadstar, Altium Designer.
• PCB design for cost-effective, high-volume manufacture.
• Design for signal integrity and EMC compliance.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Ability to estimate tasks and complete them to agreed deadlines.

Experience of the following would be a significant advantage:

• Consumer electronics.
• 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.