Role scope;

Responsible for electronic content of products, including system architecture, circuit design, integration, and lifecycle support.

Accountable for system-level decisions, design integrity, and practical delivery.

System integration

- Working with mechanical designers to ensure designs are practical and manufacturable

- Contributing to whole-product design decisions

Core Responsibilities
- Define system architecture from incomplete or evolving requirements
- Design analogue and digital circuits, including control, power, and communications
- Produce and review schematics, PCB layouts, and supporting documentation
- Balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability
- Identify technical risks early and implement mitigation
- Support prototype bring-up, debugging, validation, and production introduction

Standards and Quality requirements

- Ensure designs meet regulatory, safety, EMC, and reliability expectations

- Maintains traceability of decisions and produces samples suitable for peer review and audit

- Fulfills electronic role responsibility to the product technical file

Design and development

- Circuit design from first principles

- Component selection based on long-term availability and robustness

- PCB layout (including thermal management and EMC compliance)

- Prototype build, test and iteration

- Managing timeline targets across multiple, concurrent, developments

Product lifecycle management

- Maintaining existing designs

- Obsolescence management and redesign where required

- Supporting continuity of supply when components become unavailable

- Improving existing products as technology changes

Testing and validation

- Define and carry out testing appropriate to product use

- Prioritise reliability and longevity over cost

- Identify and remove failure modes early

- Write simple firmware for prototyping and diagnostics

- Use external specialists where appropriate

- Review and challenge external software design

Work standards

- Products work first time, are buildable, suit user skill level and are reliable

- Designs tolerate variation in use and environmental requirements

- Selected components have a robust supply chain, or alternative flexibility is designed in

- Problems are understood and solved, not worked around

- Cost is managed, but never at the expense of reliability

- Prioritisation of robustness

- Incomplete information and ambiguity is solved through solution based outcomes

- Solutions follow practical principles, not unneeded feature proliferation

- Designs are buildable, testable, and supportable

- Contributing to a safe working environment

Collaboration

- With mechanical, firmware, and production functions to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable

- Engages suppliers and specialists while retaining technical ownership

Reporting and structure

- Reports to: Design Manager

- Works alongside electrical and mechanical design, production & purchasing