Principal/Lead Electronics Engineer

Overview is looking for an experienced Lead Electronics Engineer to join our hardware engineering team at our head office in Woking, Surrey.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on electronics leader to play a pivotal role in the delivery of innovative new product development projects. You’ll lead and grow our electronics engineering capability, working across the full product lifecycle — from requirements capture and architecture definition through to design, verification, production test planning and customer support. In this role, you’ll lead technical decision-making, support business-critical projects, work closely with internal and external stakeholders, and help drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, tools and delivery. 

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership of the electronic engineering team. Ensuring the capability, capacity, process and tools in these groups meet the business needs.
• Capture of stakeholder requirements from internal and external customers for new products, variants or problem spaces.
• Formation, management and ownership of electronics system/subsystem:
• Definition and documentation of electronic architectures and trade off studies and obtaining agreement to these with the relevant stakeholders
• Comprehensive documentation of the specifications, compliance and verification processes ensuring designs are innovative, cost effective, fit for purpose and reliable.
• Effective use of CAD design tools (Altium, LTSpice, CAD trace calculators, Thermal calculation).
• Effective process selection, e.g. Soldering: reflow/vapor/wave, SMD/through hole, plating, via technology, testability, layer stack, thermal dissipation and conduction etc.
• Operational and legal compliance
• Developing validation test plans that fully test and prove pre-production hardware to guarantee the produced design meets the specifications.

Personal Profile Mandatory

• 10+ years of experience in industry as an electronic design engineer designing complex integrated mechanical, electrical and software products.
• Experience in leadership roles on business-critical projects.
• Experience planning and working to schedules in rapid development cycles. 
• Solid understanding of brushless motor design concepts.
• Design experience in one or more of the following:
• BLDC motor drive circuits.
• Video signal processing/management.
• Interfacing with sensors (optical/magnetic/temperature).
• Experience in analogue signal conditioning, protection circuitry and power supplies.
• Experience in delivering high-speed digital design.
• Experience in designing for and resolving EMC issues.

Preferred

• Experience in the development of products for manufacture in low-mix-high-volume and high-mix-low-volume markets.
• Experienced with data management systems associated with Altium such as Vault. 
• Experience with supporting products through life cycle. 
• Project technical leadership.
• Experience in coaching/leading others & a desire to grow into a leadership role.

Personal Attributes

• “Can do” attitude.
• Enthusiastic, driven to deliver.
• Works on own initiative – with determination to deliver.
• Methodical and meticulous.
• Highly organised. 

Why work for us?

• We are an exciting, growing company committed to excellence and innovation. 
• We greatly value the hard work, ingenuity and integrity of our team. 
• We provide an environment for rapid personal development. 

Benefits

• Salary £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service) 🏝️
• Employee discount platform 💰
• EAP & online GP🩺
• Early Finish Friday 🎉
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme 💰
• BUPA Medical Insurance & Cashback plan 🏥
• Flexible start & finish times & hybrid working (role dependent) ⏰

What we do.

Overview, a rapidly growing UK SME, develops and manufactures market-leading Autonomous Sensors Systems and Integrated Servo Drives for global markets. 

Overview’s Intelligent Autonomous Sensors Systems (Pods) use multiple sensors and sophisticated edge intelligence to autonomously provide users with actionable digital information. Pods can autonomously detect, classify, alert users and track targets of interest, all at machine speed. Developed for use in critical domains such as defence, surveillance, security, emergency response and counter-UAS, applications include ground-based solutions and those mounted on manned and autonomous vehicles.

Overview’s expertise includes the development and manufacture of innovative, precision, brushless, Integrated Servo Drives. These Integrated Servo Drives are sold to a rapidly growing global customer base for a range of exacting positioning applications and used by Overview in the development of Sensor Systems.

Technology leadership is core to Overview’s strategy and is underpinned by the investment of more than 20% of turnover in R&D. Specialist capabilities exist in motor design and control, mechanics, electronics, embedded software, AI/ML and sensor integration, plus systems engineering.

Overview is committed to growing exceptional business value through customer focus and providing a leading capability to rapidly define and develop unique, innovative, and market-leading products.

Our Values

Overview’s operations and reputation are based on the following company Values and Behaviours. These Values and Behaviours, consistently applied, make us what we are and are a key element of the value that we bring to our customers.

• Work together to Win Together
• Creativity and Innovation
• Integrity and Respect
• Customer Focus
• Continuous Improvement
• Positive Impact

The Process

Most of our interviews will take place over one or two stages, typically a phone/teams interview followed by a face-to-face interview on-site. We do ask all candidates who are coming to a face-to-face interview to carry out a short Psychometric assessment to help us understand how you tick! 

If you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process, we are happy to discuss this to see what we can do. We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

Please note that this is a UK-based role, and therefore, employment will be subject to satisfactory right-to-work and reference checks.

• We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to apply as soon as possible.