Hardware Engineer - All Levels

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

3/14/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Leonardo is ranked among the world’s top ten players in Aerospace, Defence and Security, is a global solutions provider and is a trusted long-term partner of choice for governments, institutions and private customers, delivering cutting-edge and dual-use technologies.

Our Electronics workforce of more than 4,000 specialists is spread across five main UK sites ( Bristol, Southampton, Luton, Basildon, Newcastle and Edinburgh )

We are currently hiring for Hardware Engineers of all levels of expertise.

What You’ll Do As a Hardware Engineer

• Supporting throughout the full hardware lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, and unit test; to integrating hardware with the target system; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to customer
• Fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports
• Designing high speed digital Printed Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, Microprocessor and high speed interconnect technologies
• Work within a multi-disciplined team of engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems
• To be an experience specialist in your field of interest and to be able to form ideas on your own and concept designs and product using best practice
• Willing to teach others and increase your own knowledge.
  
  

You really must have

• You will have either a HNC/HND or Undergraduate Degree (Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Systems based) or you may just have lots of skills and experience gained through your hard work.
• Familiarity with circuit design (schematic capture) layout and simulation design tools
• Mixed signal knowledge using ADC/DAC, FPGA, SoC based design for high performance signal processing, communications and control.
• Integrating in-house designs with COTS modules (power supplies, single board computers, RF interfaces)
• Practical experience of debugging, testing and verifying new designs
• DFx knowledge specifically Design for EMC and EMI
• Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to Hardware designs
• Design of high speed serial communication links and knowledge of associated protocols and architectures
• Hands on experience of Hardware, Firmware & Software Integration of Micro Processor Based designs onto hardware platforms is essential
• A methodical approach to the full hardware design lifecycle, working to a structured hardware process
• Debugging, testing and verification of new designs and supporting their commissioning and integration into the target system
• Ability to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form
  
  

It would be good if you had some of the following

• Domain experience in low noise analogue electronics and or power supplies.
• Experience of fast interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and JESDC,
• Model driven engineering using Matlab and Simulink tools,
• Experience in FPGAs, Micro-processors, Memory and other High speed digital technologies with a desire to grow your knowledge in these domains.
  
  

Life at Leonardo

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
• Company funded flexible benefits Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
• Holidays 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
• Pension Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity)
• Lifestyle Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
• Training Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera and Linkedin Learning
• Referral Incentive You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
• Bonus Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below
  
  

For a full list of our company benefits please our website here.

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.

At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.

Primary Location

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Additional Locations

GB - Basildon, GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane, GB - Edinburgh, GB - Newcastle

Contract Type

Hybrid Working

Hybrid