Senior Electronics Design Engineer

Salisbury, Wiltshire
Naim Audio
Description

Working at the heart of the R&D team your role is designing the electronics for the next generation of Naim Audio’s world class HiFi systems. Using your experience of working with high complexity digital systems you will be responsible for designing and implementing the electronic circuits that make Naim Audio streaming music systems sound so good. The R&D team is cross functional and you will be working closely with embedded software engineers, mechanical designers and test engineers.

From the concept phase right through to production you will be involved in the electronics design process, simulating circuits, prototyping, creating schematics, designing PCBs then testing and assisting with the transition to manufacture.

Key Responsibilities

Electronics Design:

Digital circuit design including components such as Microprocessors, DSP, FPGA, DAC/ADC
High Speed Digital Design
Power supply design, Linear and Switched mode
Analogue circuit simulation and design of amplifiers and audio filters
Prototyping and bench testing PCBs and circuits
Electronics design peer reviews
Electronics architecture reviews
Design feasibility evaluation.

ECAD Design:

Schematic Design and PCB layout
Analogue PCB Design
Power PCB Design
FPC and PCB Interconnection Design
System Integration.

Liaising with suppliers and third parties:

RF Design consultants
FFC and PCB manufacturers
Test Equipment suppliers
Custom component design
Sourcing component samples and liaising with companies for custom sample.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

You are expected to have a strong electronics engineering background, preferably with a specialisation in modern digital technologies such as dealing with the high speed digital signals commonly found with DSP and FPGA designs. Knowledge of RF technologies such as Bluetooth and WiFi would be beneficial, as would experience dealing with EMC sensitive applications.

Degree qualified in Electronics Engineering or similar discipline
History of working in a commercial environment designing complex electronics products
Able to demonstrate depth of knowledge in multiple technical areas related to digital systems design such as digital audio systems, high speed circuit design, FPGA or RF design
Analogue electronics design experience
Lab skills such as debugging prototypes in collaboration with firmware engineers and using test equipment such as modern oscilloscopes and logic analysers
Experienced ECAD user, preferably Pads Pro
Knowledge of and ability to design to global safety and EMC standards
Familiarity with modern collaborative development tools and techniques such as Confluence and Jira
Experience in the audio industry would be beneficial where critical listening was part of the design process.

About Naim Audio
Naim founder Julian Vereker MBE () was a racing car driver, entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Julian found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved.

Not content with second best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century.

This maverick approach to design, backed by over 40 years of engineering and craft, fuels our progress today. Choose Naim to go deeper into your music, for a completely immersive and involving listening experience.

Job Type: Full-time