Senior Electronics Engineer

About the Role 

The Senior Electronics Engineer designs, develops, modifies and evaluates electronic components for electronic equipment, or other hardware systems and/or electrical engineering applications. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyses equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. They will also lead the development with outsourcing partners and is the main party responsible for internal standards.

Primary responsibilities for this role include: 

• Responsible for the process of full lifecycle development for electronic products
  • Design development (plan, design, test, manufacture)
  • Compliance
  • Issue fixing and improvements
• Responsible for maintaining standards and provide compliance and certification support
• Leads development with external Electronics Partners for outsourced design
  • Writing design specifications
  • Managing communication and timelines
  • Validate designs
• Manage internal electronic systems
  • Research and implement improvements
• Select components and liaise with component suppliers
• Leading a project and/or small team
• Supply electronics expertise to aid other projects

We are ideally looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• MEng in electrical engineering or similar
• Full-cycle board-level electronics design for products released to market
• Electronics design (PCB, PCB assemblies ) in any CAD tool, both schematic and layout
• Design testing
• Component Selection
• Compliance Testing
• Design Outsourcing Strategy
• Full-cycle project management
• Manufacture partner selection
• Software Deployment
• Mass Photometry

We know there is no such thing as the perfect candidate and that there is great value in transferrable skills, so please don’t feel you have to tick all of the above boxes to apply!

Why work for Refeyn?

Compensation and core benefits

• We anticipate a salary between £60,000 and £70,000 for this role, depending on the candidate’s experience.
• 25 days annual leave per year in addition to bank holidays
• Up to 7% employer matched pension contribution
• Private health insurance from day one plus critical illness cover, income protection and life insurance
• Give as You Earn and Cycle to Work salary sacrifice schemes.

Family Friendly Benefits

Refeyn offers the Enjoy Benefits Nursery Scheme to employees after 3 months, and new parents can benefit from up to 17 weeks fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave, plus an annual allowance for emergency childcare.

Supporting your Development

All employees receive access to Linkedin Learning which offers thousands of courses to support their personal and professional development. We also run frequent training sessions on both hard and soft skills.

Creating an Engaging Culture

Refeyn supports hybrid working where the role allows and offers flexible start and finish times. We also have a subsidised weekly lunch for onsite employees and a vibrant social calendar which includes holiday parties and midsummer festivals plus an annual team budget for managers to plan team-building activities.

Values-Led 

Refeyn is committed to celebrating each other’s differences and creating a dynamic, driven and diverse culture where everyone can flourish. We are proud to have been awarded Committed Status by the Inclusive Employers Standard in 2024 and are working hard to create a safe and empowering environment for all.

We firmly believe that there is great strength in building teams with different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds so that we can continue to share the team workload and enable our customers to succeed, and we welcome applicants from all sections of society to join us on our mission to transform analytical workflows using the power of light.