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Embedded Electronics Design Team Lead

Stevenage
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Embedded Design Team Lead – Electronics Engineering
Location: Stevenage – Around 3/4 Days a Week On-Site
Salary: £50k–£65k Plus Bonus and Benefits                             
 
This well-established defence company that produces military weapons systems will reward your hard work significantly with bonuses, annual salary reviews and paid overtime, among other benefits.
 
You will be leading the day-to-day line management of the Embedded Design team, identifying opportunities and driving process improvements while working on some of the most exciting and challenging products and technology in defence today.
 
Key Responsibilities:

Provide support to the team – both technical and people management
Ensure projects get completed on time and to high standards
Manage a portfolio of advanced DSP systems (e.g. Image Processing, Software Defined Radios), complex SoC systems and safety/security critical systems
Allocate and implement the use of the latest embedded devices from various vendors (e.g. Xilinx, Intel, Texas Instruments, Analogue devices etc). 
Requirements:

Demonstrable team leadership experience
Background in Digital Hardware Design, FPGA Design (firmware), or Embedded Software Design.
Embedded digital design and modelling skills (e.g. partitioning of functional elements between software and FPGA, and modelling/analysing key performance aspects of the resulting design)
Experience integrating and testing embedded systems onto hardware platforms
Excellent communication skills with an ability to inspire and drive teams to succeed
Project management - planning, budgeting and delivery-oriented mindset 
Are you ready to manage innovative products/projects across the lifecycle and support a close-knit team? Apply now.
 
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British or Dual Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.
 
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
 
This is a permanent position

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